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Online Dictionaries

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition

This online dictionary is available to the Stanford community through the Encyclopedia Britannica's home page. Be sure to use the dictionary box for your search.

McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms , via AccessScience

AccessScience provides a collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable including access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks and 110,000+ definitions from The McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms.

Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations, via Wiley InterScience

 

This title is a comprehensive guide for deciphering the acronyms, symbols, and abbreviations used in science and technology.With 200,000 entries in over eighty different fields, Scientific and Technical Acronyms, Symbols, and Abbreviations is the most comprehensive reference of its type, covering more scientific and technical disciplines than any other available book.

You can access this resource by scrolling to the bottom of the description page for this title and then click on the Acronym Finder link at the bottom of the page.

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