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acronym
acronym — An often pronounceable word made from the initial (or selected) letters of a name or phrase.
Synopsis
- Zero or more of:
- text
- Graphic inlines
- Indexing inlines
- Linking inlines
- Ubiquitous inlines
abbrev
acronym
alt
anchor
biblioref
coref
date
emphasis
(db._emphasis)firstterm
(db._firstterm)footnote
footnoteref
foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase)glossterm
(db._glossterm)indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)inlinemediaobject
link
olink
phrase
(db._phrase)quote
(db._quote)remark
subscript
superscript
trademark
wordasword
xref
Description
A pronounceable contraction of initials. An acronym is often printed in all capitals or small capitals, although this is sometimes incorrect (consider dpi or bps).
Parents
These elements contain acronym
: abbrev
, acronym
, address
, artpagenums
, attribution
, authorinitials
, bibliocoverage
, biblioentry
, biblioid
, bibliomisc
, bibliomixed
, bibliomset
, bibliorelation
, biblioset
, bibliosource
, bridgehead
, citation
, citebiblioid
, citetitle
, city
, confdates
, confnum
, confsponsor
, conftitle
, contractnum
, contractsponsor
, contrib
, country
, edition
, email
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), emphasis
(db.emphasis), entry
, fax
, firstname
, firstterm
(db._firstterm), firstterm
(db.firstterm), foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), foreignphrase
(db.foreignphrase), givenname
, glossentry
, glosssee
, glossseealso
, glossterm
(db._glossterm), glossterm
(db.glossterm), holder
, honorific
, issuenum
, jobtitle
, label
, line
, lineage
, link
, literal
, literallayout
, mathphrase
, member
, olink
, optional
, orgdiv
, orgname
, otheraddr
, othername
, pagenums
, para
, personname
, phone
, phrase
(db._phrase), phrase
(db.phrase), pob
, postcode
, primary
, productname
, productnumber
, publishername
, quote
(db._quote), quote
(db.quote), releaseinfo
, remark
, revnumber
, revremark
, secondary
, see
, seealso
, seriesvolnums
, shortaffil
, simpara
, state
, street
, subscript
, subtitle
, superscript
, surname
, term
, termdef
, tertiary
, title
, titleabbrev
, trademark
, uri
, volumenum
, wordasword
, year
.
Children
The following elements occur in acronym: text, abbrev
, acronym
, alt
, anchor
, biblioref
, coref
, date
, emphasis
(db._emphasis), firstterm
(db._firstterm), footnote
, footnoteref
, foreignphrase
(db._foreignphrase), glossterm
(db._glossterm), indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), inlinemediaobject
, link
, olink
, phrase
(db._phrase), quote
(db._quote), remark
, subscript
, superscript
, trademark
, wordasword
, xref
.
Examples
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>
<title>Example acronym</title>
<para>In the United States, <acronym>NASA</acronym> stands for the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
</para>
</article>
In the United States, NASA stands for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.