recursive acronymとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

recursive acronym (plural recursive acronyms)

1. An acronym in which a word (often the first) of the phrase represented by the acronym is the acronym itself.
   • 1983 April, Douglas R. Hofstadter, “Metamagical Themas”, in Scientific American, →ISSN, page 20:

     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.

参考

• macronym
• RAS syndrome

Further reading

• recursive acronym on Wikipedia.Wikipedia