Terminology Dictionary
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A Terminology Dictionary is a dictionary for a single technical terminology.
- AKA: Technical Dictionary, Terminological Dictionary, Technical Term Dictionary, Domain-Specific Dictionary.
- Example(s):
- a Linguistics Dictionary, such as (Crystal, 2008).
- a Statistics Dictionary, such as (Everitt, 2006).
- a Computing Dictionary, such as (Daintith & Wright, 2010)
- a Mathematics Dictionary.
- a Science Dictionary.
- a Machine Learning Dictionary, Data Mining Dictionary.
- a Medical Dictionary, for medical terms.
- a Legal Term Dictionary, for legal terms.
- …
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Glossary, because it does not strive to cover a complete set of all Technical Terms.
- See: Glossary, General Purpose Dictionary.
References
2008
- (Crystal, 2008) ⇒ David Crystal. (2008). “A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, 6th edition." Blackwell Publishing. ISBN:9781405152976
2006
- (Everitt, 2006) ⇒ Brian S. Everitt. (2006). “The Cambridge Dictionary of Statistics. 3rd Edition.” Cambridge University Press. ISBN:0521690277