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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) : [ foldoc ]


  recursive acronym
       
           A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to
          choose acronyms and abbreviations that refer humorously to
          themselves or to other acronyms or abbreviations.  The classic
          examples were two MIT editors called EINE ("EINE Is Not
          Emacs") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially").  More
          recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar
          Imitates Apply Recursively), and GNU stands for "GNU's Not
          Unix!" - and a company with the name CYGNUS, which expands
          to "Cygnus, Your GNU Support".
       
          See also mung.
       
          [{Jargon File]
       
          (1995-04-28)

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) : [ jargon ]


  recursive acronym n. A hackish (and especially MIT) tradition is to
     choose acronyms/abbreviations that refer humorously to themselves or to
     other acronyms/abbreviations. The classic examples were two MIT editors
     called EINE ("EINE Is Not EMACS") and ZWEI ("ZWEI Was EINE Initially").
     More recently, there is a Scheme compiler called LIAR (Liar Imitates
     Apply Recursively), and GNU (q.v., sense 1) stands for "GNU's Not
     Unix!" -- and a company with the name Cygnus, which expands to "Cygnus,
     Your GNU Support" (though Cygnus people say this is a backronym). See
     also mung, EMACS.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  recursive acronym
     n.
     An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase
  represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  recursive acronym
     n.
     An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase
  represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  recursive acronym
     n.
     An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase
  represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  recursive acronym
     n.
     An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase
  represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]


  recursive acronym /ɹɪkˈɜːsɪv ˈakɹənˌɪm/ 
  rekursiivinen akronyymi
  an acronym in which a word of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself

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