Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations, and Symbols

Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations, and Symbols
Author: Fioretta Benedetto Mattia
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Total Pages: 676
Release: 1997
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Hardbound. This dictionary sheds light on the intricate world of acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, symbols and codes. It includes over 10,000 of them and covers over 500 fields and subfields. The French and Italian abbreviations included have the English equivalents. The dictionary is supplemented by useful appendices with hundreds of additional acronyms and initialisms of banks, research institutes, centres for promoting studies, foundations, fellowships etc., which are now in current use.This dictionary is an indispensable tool in the everyday professional life of students, biologists, engineers, translators, scholars, physicians, physicists and many more. It is also of immense value worldwide to researchers and computer users, as well as to all those people interested in keeping abreast of developments, particularly in science and technology.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations and Symbols

Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations and Symbols
Author: Fioretta. Benedetto Mattia
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2003-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0080544134

The dictionary contains an alphabetical listing of approximately 30,000 (thirty thousand) acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and symbols covering approximately 2,000 fields and subfields ranging from Pelagic Ecology to Anthrax Disease, Artificial Organs to Alternative Cancer Therapies, Age-related Disorders to Auditory Brainstem Implants, Educational Web Sites to Biodefense, Biomedical Gerontology to Brain Development, Cochlear Implants to Cellular Phones, Constructed Viruses to Copper Metabolism, Drug Discovery Programs to Drug-resistant Strains, Eugenics to Epigenetics, Epilepsy Drugs to Fertility Research, Genetically Modified Foods/Crops to Futuristic Cars, Genetic Therapies to Glycobiology, Herbicide-tolerant Crops to Heritable Disorders, Human Chronobiology to Human gene Therapies, Immunization Programs to Lunar Research, Liver Transplantation to Microchip Technology, Mitochondrial Aging to Molecular Gerontology, Neurodegenerative Diseases to Neuropsychology of Aging, Neurosurgery to Next Generation Programs, Obesity Research to Prion Diseases, Quantum Cryptography to Reemerging Diseases, Retinal Degeneration to Rice Genome Research, Social Anthropology to Software Development, Synchrotron Research to Vaccine Developments, Remote Ultrasound Diagnostics to Water Protection, Entomology to Chemical Terrorism and hundreds of others, as well as abbreviations/acronyms/initialisms relating to European Community and U.S., Japanese and International Programs/Projects/Initiatives from year 2000 up to 2010 as well as World Bank Programs.

International Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary

International Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary
Author: Mary Rose Bonk
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 1260
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Abbreviations
ISBN: 9780810374379

This dictionary deciphers more than 150,000 English and non-English acronyms used internationally and in specific countries. Entries are arranged alphabetically by acronym as well as by complete word or phrase, with the acronym given as the definition. This edition adds 40,000 new terms.

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary

Acronyms, Initialisms & Abbreviations Dictionary
Author:
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Total Pages: 1324
Release: 2001-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Each volume separately titled: v. 1, Acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary; v. 2, New acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations (formerly issued independently as New acronyms and initialisms); v. 3, Reverse acronyms, initialisms & abbreviations dictionary (formerly issued independently as Reverse acronyms and initialisms dictionary).