sigles: una forma abreviada d' un terme multiparaula que consisteix d' algunes de les lletres inicials de les paraules que composen el terme quan aquestes lletres es pronuncien individualment (p. ex. 'EEB' per 'Encefalopatia Espongiforme Bovina) XLIFF mark type
initialism: an abbreviated form of a term consisting of some of the initial letters of the words making up a multiword term or the term elements making up a compound term when these letters are pronounced individually (e. g. 'BSE 'for'bovine spongiform encephalopathy')