Dictionary of scientific and technical terms
Editorial MCGRAW-HILL
Mainland Spain
- Publisher MCGRAW-HILL
- ISBN13 9780070423336
- ISBN10 0070423334
- Type BOOK
- Pages 2194
- Published 1983
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Subjects
Dictionaries Of ChemistryDictionary of scientific and technical terms
Editorial MCGRAW-HILL
Mainland Spain
Book details
For more than a quarter of a century, this amazingly comprehensive dictionary has been a standard international reference. Containing more than 115,000 terms and 125,000 definitions-from 100 areas of science and technology-this trusted resource provides definitions written in clear, simple language, understandable to the general reader, yet is consistent with the specialized use of the term.
THE NEW SIXTH EDITION:
* Thoroughly revised with 5,000 NEW TERMS
* Each term includes a helpful pronunciation guide
* Entries are complemented by 3,000 illustrations; appendices containing biographic listings, converison tables, taxonomic classification charts, and more
* The only dictionary of scientific and technical terms to be thumb-indexed
Invaluable to scientists, researchers, teachers, students, as well as interested lay persons, the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms is truly the single best way for anyone to gain fluency in the language of science.