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Electronics and Nucleonics Dictionary
Revised, improved, and enlarged, this new Third Edition of the dictionary formerly authored by Cooke and Markus continues to be the world's standard authority on electronics and nucleonics terminology for engineers, technicians, students, technical writers, editors, and secretaries.
Logically consistent as well as eminently authoritative, it provides the preferred meaning, spelling, hyphenation, abbreviation, and usage of some 16,300 terms — one-fourth more than the previous edition —that are currently employed in industrial, medical, military, and space electronics, television, radio, radar, avionics, nuclear science and engineering, and a host of related fields.
Improved the utility of the work and making it even easier to understand, the number of illustrations has been more than tripled, to over 1,500. Each illustration has been carefully selected to clarify and enhance the definition with which it is associated.
The characteristic brevity and clarity of the definitions, however, have been retained, along with the legible and attractive typography. Because the terms are simply and directly defined, they are easily understood regardless of the reader's level of technical education. And all technical words used in a definition are also defined for cross-reference.
As in the past, this standard reference continues to pace the rapid growth of the liveliest areas in all technology. The Third Edition contains a great many new terms in the fast-growing fields of space electronics, lasers, integrated circuits, thin films, semiconductor components, and other aspects of microelectronics.
Based on extensive searches of published literature and on hundreds of conferences with experts in various specialties, the terminology reflects the most widely accepted and up-to-date usage. Thus as an indispensible[sic] style guide in preparing technical articles, reports, and books . . . in preparing contracts, patent applications, catalogs, and advertising copy . . . in composing sales letters . . . and in routine business correspondence, this book can save time and money in preventing costly corrections on typed letters, manuscripts, and printer's proofs . . . and eliminate style and spelling arguments among staff members that too often detract from constructive time on projects.
Logically consistent as well as eminently authoritative, it provides the preferred meaning, spelling, hyphenation, abbreviation, and usage of some 16,300 terms — one-fourth more than the previous edition —that are currently employed in industrial, medical, military, and space electronics, television, radio, radar, avionics, nuclear science and engineering, and a host of related fields.
Improved the utility of the work and making it even easier to understand, the number of illustrations has been more than tripled, to over 1,500. Each illustration has been carefully selected to clarify and enhance the definition with which it is associated.
The characteristic brevity and clarity of the definitions, however, have been retained, along with the legible and attractive typography. Because the terms are simply and directly defined, they are easily understood regardless of the reader's level of technical education. And all technical words used in a definition are also defined for cross-reference.
As in the past, this standard reference continues to pace the rapid growth of the liveliest areas in all technology. The Third Edition contains a great many new terms in the fast-growing fields of space electronics, lasers, integrated circuits, thin films, semiconductor components, and other aspects of microelectronics.
Based on extensive searches of published literature and on hundreds of conferences with experts in various specialties, the terminology reflects the most widely accepted and up-to-date usage. Thus as an indispensible[sic] style guide in preparing technical articles, reports, and books . . . in preparing contracts, patent applications, catalogs, and advertising copy . . . in composing sales letters . . . and in routine business correspondence, this book can save time and money in preventing costly corrections on typed letters, manuscripts, and printer's proofs . . . and eliminate style and spelling arguments among staff members that too often detract from constructive time on projects.
752 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1966
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June 27, 2017
This dictionary made it possible for me to envision, to some extent, what it would be like to live in the sixties, technology-wise.
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