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Categories: Recursion, Self-reference, Rhetoric, Types of words, Word play
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recursive acronym  Circular acronym  Metacronym  Recursive abbreviation  Recursive acronyms
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A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself, and appears most frequently in computer programming. Wikipedia
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A recursive acronym is an acronym that refers to itself, and appears most frequently in computer programming. Wikipedia
Acronym whose meaning refers to itself Wikidata
A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism) is an abbreviation which refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. ARF -> Acronyme-Recursion-Finder SARF -> "Simple ARF" or "SARF-Acronyme-Recursion-Finder" OmegaWiki
An acronym in which the first letter of the first word represented by the acronym is the acronym itself. Wiktionary
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GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's not UNIX". Wiktionary
"HURD" is a co-recursive acronym, standing for "HIRD of Unix-Replacing Daemons", where "HIRD" stands for "HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth". Wiktionary
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Circular acronym, Metacronym, Recursive abbreviation, Recursive Acronym, Recursive acronyms, recursive initialism, Self-referential acronym, The TTP Project

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