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encyclopedia

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Word definitions for encyclopedia in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A comprehensive reference work (often spanning several printed volumes) with articles (usually arranged in alphabetical order, or sometimes arranged by category) on a range of subjects, sometimes general, sometimes limited to a particular field. 2 ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty [syn: cyclopedia , encyclopaedia , cyclopaedia ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encyclopedia \En*cy`clo*pe"di*a\, Encyclopaedia \En*cy`clo*p[ae]"di*a\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?, for ? ?, instruction in the circle of arts and sciences: cf. F. encyclop['e]die. See Cyclopedia , and Encyclical .] [Formerly written encyclop[ae]dy and encyclopedy ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
An encyclopedia is a type of reference work. It may also refer to: Encyclopedia (TV series) , an HBO television series Encyclopédia , a French TV channel Encyclopedia Brown , a book series

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "general course of instruction," from Modern Latin encyclopaedia (c.1500), thought to be a false reading by Latin authors of Greek enkyklios paideia taken as "general education," but literally "training in a circle," i.e. the "circle" of arts and ...

Usage examples of encyclopedia.

Earth, an outline of the evolution of our biosphere, the facts of anthropogenesis, a whole encyclopedia.

In addition to exegetical studies on Buddhism and Confucianism, they compiled dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference-type materials that provided the groundwork for nearly all subsequent scholarly activity in premodern Japan.

Absolutely Free, the titanic new-from-cover-tocover MODERNISTIC ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WORLD KNOWLEDGE, the FIRST cyclopedia to be prepared, by a staff of World Experts, on the NEW SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF PHILOLOGY, BIOLOGY, PEDAGOGY, AGRONOMICS AND MONEY-MAKING, and the most magnificently illustrated Book of Reference in the entire history of publishing.

Repeating procedures, digging up the software encyclopedia and putting the interlingua alphabet onscreen.

Hamlin, still roaring with turbulent inner laughter, was sending up scene after scene out of his no doubt actual experience, coupling with Lissa in this position, in that one, Lissa on top, Lissa down on her knees being had dogwise, the whole copulatory biography of their long-age liaison, and Macy, helpless, his phantom images of Jeanie Grossman and the encyclopedia woman swept away by this gushing incursion of reality, lay stunned and sobbing and impotent waiting for Hamlin to stop tormenting him.

Or about accelerated education of our young by nanorobots which coast through their brains, bringing encyclopedias of knowledge disguised in a single mouthful of Koolaid.

Alexander tested this by having Bucephalus scan the Encyclopedia Britannica and store it all in its memory.

Teds stories, John Clute wrote in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, constituted a set of codes or maps capable of leading maimed adolescents out of alienation and into the light.

Wilson compares this approach to taking out one page of an encyclopedia at a time, ripping it up and putting it together again.

Bloodletters and Badmen: A Narrative Encyclopedia of America Criminals from the Pilgrims to the Present.

I tole her I am quittin the encyclopedia bidness to go up to Atlanta an help Alfred make his new CokeCola, an that I figger I got to do this, account of it is a lot of money involved an we need to fix up little Forrest with some backup income.

Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia, 11:273 Raymond, Out of the Fiery Furnace (1984) Scurlock, Bioenergy Feedstock Characteristics, http://bioenergy.

I was in the Science Library, digging something out of the Encyclopedia Britannica, when she appeared beside me and placed on the open page an evidently premeditated thin envelope, bulgingly confessing the coins within.

Even though we know, from the encyclopedias, that the secret is to co-polymerize butadiene and styrene (or acrylonitrile), where exactly are the butadiene and styrene coming from?

Then he leaned back in his antique swivel chair, locked his hands behind his head, elevated his long legs luxuriously, and crossed his feet upon the fourth volume of the American and English Encyclopedia of Law, which lay open upon the desk at Champerty and Maintenance.