acronym
RAdio Detecting And Ranging
Like radar or scuba, this is an acronym: Mother I'd Like to F*** --- MILF. Crude, but there it is.
The acrynum for RADAR is: Radio A Detection And Ranging
"RADAR" is a noun, and it is an abbreviation that you can pronounce, making it an acronym (literally "High name").Similar acronyms include "LASER" and "SCUBA".RADAR stands for "RAdio Detection And Ranging".LASER stands for "Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation" ('Radiation in this case refers to the light).SCUBA stands for "Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus".
acronym
Radio Direction and Ranging
RAdio Detecting And Ranging
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
PME is Prime Mission Equipment.
Like radar or scuba, this is an acronym: Mother I'd Like to F*** --- MILF. Crude, but there it is.
The word pyramid is not an acronym like radar (radio detection and ranging) or scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus) are. Check the definition of this word by using the link to the related question.
Yes, SCUBA is an acronym and it stands for Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus
IT stands for Information Technology.---Athough, IT is not an acronym. An acronym is actual word that is made up from the first letters of a phrase such as scuba.(Self Contained Underwater Breathing Aparatus)
An acronym is a string of letters standing for the words in a phrase. So no - SCUBA was not a word before it was an acronym. As an acronym SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) has entered the language and now can stand on its own as a noun -- an aqualung or a verb - scubaed and scubaing, an adjective - the scuba industry. So no an acronym doesn't have to be a word, and just because some become words doesn't mean they should. HAND.
It's an acronym: Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus = SCUBA (not scuba)