What is "cyclopedia"

Cyclopedia \Cy`clo*pe"di*a\ Cyclopaedia \Cy`clo*p[ae]"di*a\(s?`kl?-p?"d?-?), n. [NL., from Gr. ky`klos circle + paidei`a the bringing up of a child, education, erudition, fr. paidey`ein to bring up a child. See Cycle, and cf. Encyclopedia, Pedagogue.] The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

n. (alternative spelling of cyclopaedia English)

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: encyclopedia, encyclopaedia, cyclopaedia]

Cyclopedia is an iPhone application that overlays geotagged Wikipedia articles on a GPS-enabled Google street view, such that one is able to see what notable Wikipedia-defined places and landmarks are near one’s own location. It provides paragraph summary, distance, direction, and Wikipedia article connection for each location. As of July 2010, the application connects to Wikipedia articles in seven different languages, is only available for the iPhone 3GS and 4.0, and costs $1.99.

Cyclopedia, cyclopaedia or cyclopædia is an archaic term for encyclopedia.

The term may specifically refer to:

• Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, 1728, edited by Ephraim Chambers
• Rees's Cyclopædia, 1802-1820, edited by Abraham Rees
• Penny Cyclopaedia, edited by George Long, published from 1833 to 1843
• Tomlinson's Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, 1852 - 1854, edited by Charles Tomlinson
• New American Cyclopaedia 1857–1863 editors George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.
• The English Cyclopaedia, 1866, edited by Charles Knight
• American Cyclopaedia 1873–1876, the successor to the New American Cyclopaedia, the primary editors were George Ripley and Charles A. Dana.
• Cyclopedia of Universal History 1880-1884, World History
• Johnson's New Universal Cyclopaedia, 1876, edited by Frederick Barnard and Arnold Guyot
• Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia, 1893, edited by Charles Kendall Adams
• Pears Cyclopaedia, a one volume encyclopaedia originally published in the United Kingdom by Pears Soap as Pears Shilling Cyclopaedia in December 1897
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• Universal Cyclopaedia, 1900, edited by Charles Kendall Adams
• Universal Cyclopaedia and Atlas, 1902, edited by Rossiter Johnson
• The Baseball Cyclopedia, 1922, by Ernest J. Lanigan