Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Sixth Edition

This amazingly comprehensive dictionary is a standard international reference.

Containing more than 115,000 terms and 125,000 definitions—from 100 areas of science and technology—this trusted resource provides definitions written in clear, simple language, understandable to the general reader, yet is consistent with the specialized use of the term.

Features of this new Sixth Edition:

• Thoroughly revised with 5,000 new terms
• Updated definitions
• Each term includes a helpful pronunciation guide
• Entries are complemented by 3,000 illustrations
• Appendices containing biographic listings, converison tables, taxonomic classification charts, and more
• The only dictionary of scientific and technical terms to be thumb-indexed

Invaluable to scientists, researchers, teachers, students, as well as interested lay persons, the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms is truly the single best way for anyone to gain fluency in the language of science.

Contents

• How to Use the Dictionary

• Field Abbreviations

• Scope of Fields

• Notes on Pronunciation

• Pronunciation Key

• Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms

Appendix:

• U.S. Customary System and Metric System
• International System
• Conversion Factors for the Measurement Systems
• Units of Temperature in Measurement Systems
• Symbols for the Chemical Elements
• Chemical Nomenclature
• Symbols in Scientific Writing
• Periodic Table of the Elements
• Mathematical Signs and Symbols
• Mathematical Notation
• Fundamental Constants
• Elementary Particles
• Schematic Electronic Symbols
• Geological Time Scale and Related Aspects
• Classification of Living Organisms
• Biographical Listing

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