Brewing Glossary

Foampage Brewing Glossary

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No. of terms: 350
Language: English
Description: Excellent glossary for everyone interested in beer brewing. Good and wide selection of terms, clear definitions. Must visit!
Example term: barley
A cereal of the genus Hordeum, a member of the Gramineae or grass family of plants that also includes wheat, rye, oats, maize, rice, millet [...]

ODLIS — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

ODLIS — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science; also available in print as hardcover or paperback from Libraries Unlimited.
No. of terms: 4,200 terms and cross-references

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Description: ODLIS , written by Joan Reitz, Haas Instruction Librarian, Western Connecticut State University, is a most remarkable reference resource for library and information science and [...]

PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Photography

PhotoNotes.org Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography
Language: English
No. of terms: 1487

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Description: The PhotoNotes.org dictionary is the most accurate, useful and comprehensive reference source offering contemporary photographic terms I found on the Net so far. On several occasions the descriptions go beyond mere definitions: they include the theoretical background of the term [...]

ABT Ballet Dictionary

American Ballet Theatre – Ballet Dictionary
No. of terms: 170

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Description: The ABT dictionary is a beautiful work defining the most important ballet terms. If you have the QuickTime Player installed, you will be able also to enjoy demonstrations of the defined terms:
“Welcome to American Ballet Theatre’s Online Ballet Dictionary, a unique interactive [...]

FED-STD-1037C Telecommunication Glossary

Federal Standard 1037C, Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
Language: English
No. of terms: close to 6000
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Description: This glossary of telecommunications, one of the most comprehensive and authoritative reference work on the Internet, provides standard definitions for the fields subsumed by the umbrella discipline of telecommunications. Fields defined herein include: antenna types and measurements, codes/ [...]

EPA Terms of Environment

EPA Terms of Environment
No. of terms: 1,900
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Description: The glossary “Terms of Environment” is edited and periodically updated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA leads the nation’s environmental science, research, education and assessment efforts. Its mission is to protect human health and the environment.
The “EPA Terms of Environment” Glossary offers definitions [...]

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy

The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy
Languages: English and many others such as Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.
No. of terms: n.a.
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Description: The history of the Merck Manual goes back to 1899, when the American drug manufacturer Merck & Co. first published a small book titled Merck’s Manual of the [...]

NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms Also reachable under: http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/
No. of terms: 4000+

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NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms, by the National Cancer Institute, is one of the most comprehensive medical dictionaries found on the Web. It is also partially used in diverse glossaries on US Government sites with a smaller focus.
The Cancer Dictionary [...]

IBM Terminology

IBM Terminology
No. of terms: several thousands!
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This IBM resource,  or should we say computer dictionary, consolidates the terminology from many IBM products, but at its core it holds endless entries of base computer terminology, terms and definitions. It is to my best knowledge one of the most comprehensive and  best maintain reference source [...]