Terminology Dictionary

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.

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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

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