English-Finnish translations for recursive acronym

• rekursiivinen akronyymi

Definition of recursive acronym

• An acronym in which the first letter of the first word represented by the acronym is the acronym itself

Examples

• GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNUs not UNIX"
• "HURD" is a co-recursive acronym, standing for "HIRD of Daemons", where "HIRD" stands for "HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth".

Related words

• recursive
• recursively
• left-recursive
• recursive server
• recursive set
• recursively enumerable
• recursively defined sequence