Published: The Hutchinson dictionary of science Published: Dictionary of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics by: Scott, Karen. Published: Ask Us: Live Chat. New York : McGraw-Hill, c Check Holdings for more information. Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record! The dictionary is, on the whole, a satisfactory source, even though it does not in every instance meet its announced purpose of being intelligible to the general, technically inclined reader.
The volume is helpful in providing crisp, understandable definitions for entropy, cybernetics, crosstalk, and many other scientific terms that are often used vaguely or erroneously. Moreover, the dictionary provides useful details: entries for geological time periods, chemical processes, and biological classifications are among the many that include quantitative as well as descriptive information.
While searching or browsing the site, you may come across the following content types:. The search engine operates by seeking matches with search terms from two distinct types of data pulled from the contents of AccessScience: a layer of semantic metadata associated with each article or other feature, and the exact matches of words or phrases in the text.
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Search results pages on AccessScience are organized by relevancy, and can be filtered by content type and topic. The Encyclopedia contains 7, articles on all aspects of science and technology written to provide short, but comprehensive coverage of each topic. The Dictionary, in its 3rd edition, contains some 98, terms and , definitions. The user can enter single or multiple terms, authors or titles to retrieve information.
Articles, selected from a summary list, may be read, printed or downloaded to disk. While in the Encyclopedia, special dictionary functions let users view term definitions through window overlays. Raitt, D. Please share your general feedback. McGraw-Hill has published a fourth edition of their durable scientific and technical dictionary, a volume designed to help readers fight their way through the thickets of technical literature.
Parker and her collaborators present us with more than , entries and a series of useful appendices in a thick, yet manageable, reference work. The dictionary is, on the whole, a satisfactory source, even though it does not in every instance meet its announced purpose of being intelligible to the general, technically inclined reader.
The volume is helpful in providing crisp, understandable definitions for entropy, cybernetics, crosstalk, and many other scientific terms that are often used vaguely or erroneously. Moreover, the dictionary provides useful details: entries for geological time periods, chemical processes, and biological classifications are among the many that include quantitative as well as descriptive information.
Almost every query made by several readers over two weeks' time found an entry in this dictionary, and most queries yielded sufficient information to meet the needs. And, as happens when dictionaries are consulted, they often found interesting. Continue with Facebook. Sign up with Google.
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