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  • adjective Pertaining to the use of acronyms.

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  • adjective characterized by the use of acronyms

Etymologies

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From acronym +‎ -ous

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Examples

  • Chris, might I offer a non acronymous name for DiSo – “openbook”.

    OAuth 1.0, OpenID 2.0 and up next: DiSo | FactoryCity 2007

  • Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY) introduced the appropriately acronymous Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny (REINS) Act, which would require congressional authorization for any new major rule proposed by the executive branch.

    PA Pundits - International 2010

  • In the preceding chapters we have run through various current news that induce astonishment at the cowardice, venality and stupidity of the West's ruling elites everywhere -- from Australia's crypto-Marxist Kevin Rudd through America's spendthrift neocap neocon, George W. Bush and archliberal neosoc Barack Obama, to Amsterdam's neo - dhimmi Mayor Job Cohen, to the cabal of White bootlickers of Third World despots populating every EU, UN and all other acronymous global organizations.

    The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009

  • I wondered a while back if anyone had written anything on quasi-acronymous cute names like HoJo and MoDo.

    Literal-Minded 2009

  • You use it hesitantly alas acronymous a doctorial cable dsl wireless, placidly immaculately plump torrent late with it at the paleographer rosary.

    Rational Review 2009

  • There is a habit of denoting Scheme books with their initials, so the two books I have just cited are also known as TSPL3 e PLAI; however, the most famous acronymous is certainly SICP, i.e. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, by Harold Abelson e Gerald Jay Sussman.

    Artima Weblogs 2008

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