- DICTIONARIES - GLOSSARIES - ENCYCLOPEDIAS (all)
- 1st place to look for dictionaries
- Extensive link list to all types of dictionaries
- 1st place to look up words
- Looks up words in multiple dictionaries, including technical terms
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
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- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Glossary Online
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- Britannica Internet Guide
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- Cell and Molecular Biology Tables
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- Cell Biology Dictionary
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- Cognitive Science Dictionary
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- Computing Dictionary
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- Dictionary and Encyclopedia from Encarta
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- Disorders:Terms for Cognitive Behavioral and Neurologic Disorders
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- Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library
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- Encyclopedia of Cybernetics and Related Philosophy
- Principia Cybernetica Web
- Encyclopedia of Neuroscience 2nd Edition Updates
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- Family Practice Handbook (Virtual Hospital)
- One of the most complete references on the Web
- Frontiers in Bioscience
- Database links, encyclopedia and journal
- General Information - How Stuff Works
- Simple clear descriptions about lots of stuff
- General information - Information Please Compendium
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- General Information - Straight Dope: Information about all sorts of things
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- Genomics Glossaries
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- Glossary of Genetic Terms
- Excellent. Useful written definitions, including inherited diseases. Also has a auditory component that gives longer descriptions using RealPlayer.
- ISM Book
- A Field Guide to the nomenclature of philosophy. Very useful and complete.
- Jewish Terms
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- Legal Encyclopedia: Basic from Nolo
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- Life Science Dictionary
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- Link List - Medical and Health Glossaries Online
- Extensive list of over 1000 items, including many in languages other than English
- Medical Dictionary Online
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- Medical Encyclopedia
- Excellent. Extensive collection of basic information on medicine and related biology.
- Medical Spellcheck Online
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- Mental Health Encyclopedia
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- Microscopy Terms Extended Glossary
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- Neuroanatomical and Neurological Terms Glossary
- Common, basic terminology
- Neurologic Disorder Information and Glossary
- Excellent. Description, treatment, prognosis and links for an extensive list of disorders. (from NIMH)
- Neurology Handbook
- A compendium of WWW links organized as"chapters"in a virtual textbook
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
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- Periodic Table of the Elements
- Nicely hyperlinked
- Periodic Table Visual Interpretation
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- Philosophy Encyclopedia Online Project (Stanford)
- Continuously being written and updated
- Philosophy Internet Encyclopedia
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- Philosophy of Mind Dictionary
- Cooperative effort that defines main terms
- Proverbio: Journal of Internet Proverb Studies
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- Psychiatric Terminology glossary
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- Psycholinguistic Based Dictionary from Wordnet
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- Sign Language Dictionary Online
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- Social and Behavioral Sciences Encyclopedia
- Free abstracts
- Statistics Glossary
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- Symbols
- Encyclopedia of Western signs and ideograms
- Telecommunications Glossary
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- Thesaurus, Phrases and Quotations (links)
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- ThinkQuest Library of Entries
- A virtual library dealing with topics in any discipline, authored by students and their teachers
- Visionary: Dictionary of Terminology in Vision Research
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- Webgrammar's References for Writers and Editors
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- Word Roots and Meaning
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- World Factbooks - CIA
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- World Wide Words
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- WWW Acronym Finder
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