recursive acronym

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.
    — I used the odd variable name “tato”, mentioning that it is a recursive acronym standing for “tato (and tato only)”. Using this fact you can expand “tato” any number of times.

词形变化

recursive acronyms plural

词源

From recursive + acronym, originating in early hacker culture and later popularized by Douglas Hofstadter.
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