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Conditions for Columbus, GA, US

52°F
Mostly Cloudy
9 mph W | 0.1 mi
Your local forecast:

Sat Sun
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54°F/41°F 59°F/43°F
Sunrise / Sunset:
6:52 am / 6:46 pm
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acronym
\AK-ruh-nim\
noun

a word formed from the beginning letter or letters of each or most of the parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation formed from initial letters

Example Sentence
The new committee spent a fair amount of time choosing a name that would lend itself to an appealing acronym.

When thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, with a form agreeable to thy fancy, take her home to thy house; she is worthy to be thy friend, thy companion in life, the wife of thy bosom.

Akhenaton? (c. B.C. 1375) Egyptian King and Monotheist