The phrase "a set of initials" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the letters that represent a person's name or title, often used for identification or abbreviation.
Example: "The document was signed with a set of initials that were difficult to decipher."
Alternatives: "a series of initials" or "a collection of initials".
On the corner of the road, Bowles points out a set of initials on a boarded-up building – TSP, stencilled three times.
Boo's counterpart in extreme outsiderdom is "Harriet the Spy" 's Harrison Withers, who shares with the book's heroine a comfort with his interior life and a set of initials.
The By the Book feature on April 29, an interview with Madeleine Albright, omitted a set of initials in her reply to a question about book recommendations for students of government.
But when the Spencer computer turns itself on a few times, she uses it to track a set of initials and positively identify her friend in the bathroom as one Madison Elizabeth Frank, a student who has been missing.
But I can tell you this: When Mohammed took off his maroon nylon track-suit top, something he did not do until the very hottest hour of the day, I spied, tattooed on his arm, a large heart festooned with a set of initials, which, curiously, were written in Roman, rather than Arabic, script.
Mark Scheerer writes in response to my column on the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web: "Tim Berners-Lee says his friends gave him a hard time because his term, World Wide Web, 'yielded an acronym that was nine syllables long when spoken.' I believe it actually yielded an abbreviation or a set of initials -- not an acronym, or letters which form a word".
The program initializes with a set of initial realizations (population) of reservoir generated from geostatistical software (see next section for details).
Kaufman's initialization can provide a set of initial centers of clusters to produce stable and accurate clustering results for remote sensing images.
Eagleman establishes a set of initial conditions, then lets the implications unfold logically.
The team will frame a set of initial questions to test assumptions around journalism and mobile technology and advance research in this area.
(u.s.a. -- get it?) But U.S.A. is a set of initial letters pronounced individually, not forming an acronym that can be pronounced as a word or is already a word.
