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DICTIONARIES
Acronym Finder
This database contains over 187,000 acronyms
and abbreviations primarily in the computer,
technology, telecommunications, and military
fields. However more general acronyms can also
be found.
Biography.com
Search 25,000 personalities from the past and
present.
Dictionaries on the Web
This site contains links to dictionaries in
several languages.
Foreignword.com
This site provides access to online
translation and mono-lingual dictionaries for
many languages. The site is available in
English, Spanish or French.
Glossary of Literary Terms and Handbook of Rhetorical
Devices
Two dictionaries of terms used in literature.
Merriam-Webster Online
Look up definition, pronunciation, etymology,
spelling, or usage point in the WWWebster
Dictionary (the on-line version of
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth
Edition).
Onelook dictionaries
This site indexes 109 online dictionaries in
the following broad subject areas:
computer/Internet, science, medicine,
technology, business, sport, religion,
acronyms and general.
Roget's Thesaurus
Based on the 1911 version of Roget's Thesaurus
Webster's Dictionary
A hypertext version of the print dictionary.
YourDictionary.com
This site features an index of 1,200+
dictionaries in more than 200 languages as
well as 60 specialized dictionaries covering
everything from advertising to travel, and
grammars for several languages.
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Encyclopedia Britannica is a leading
provider of the most trusted sources of
information on every topic – from the origins
of the universe to current events and
everything in between.
Canadian Encyclopedia
This English-French bilingual Canadian
Encyclopedia is currently free online while
under development.
Concise Columbia Encyclopedia
More than 17,000 articles from the Concise
Columbia Encyclopedia (third ed.)
Encarta Online (Concise Encyclopedia)
Microsoft's free encyclopedia contains 16,000
articles and more than 2,200 photos,
illustrations, maps, charts and tables...
This "free" site contains only a small
percentage of the reference contents. Readers
must register for the Encarta Online Deluxe
Encyclopedia to access the complete set of
Encarta Encyclopedia articles.
Free Internet Encyclopedia
This is an encyclopedia of information
available on the Internet.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is the
first dynamic encyclopedia. In a dynamic
encyclopedia, each entry is maintained and
kept up-to-date by an expert or group of
experts in the field.
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QUOTATIONS
A dictionary of scientific quotations
A list of famous scientific quotations, with
the authors in alphabetical order.
Project Bartleby
Primarily a collection of literary sources.
The Quotations Page
A site that brings together several
collections of quotations and allows searching
individual or multiple collections
simultaneously.
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