Dictionaries
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The list below represents a selection of dictionaries freely available on the Internet or restricted to Concordia users.
Engineering & Computer Science
- A Dictionary of physics
Covers all of the most commonly encountered terms and concepts of physics as well as biographies of key scientists. - Dictionary of architecture and building construction
Offers huge coverage for anyone studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields. - Dictionary of computing
Provides students and professionals with concise but authoritative and usefully detailed definitions of terms associated with the hardware/software of computation. - Encyclopedic dictionary of polymers
Contains more than 7,500 polymeric material terms, including the names of chemicals, processes, formulae, and analytical methods that are used frequently in the polymer and engineering fields. - Polymers: a property database
A comprehensive and in-depth collection of properties for a very wide range of polymers, both synthetic and natural. - Wiley electrical and electronics engineering dictionary
Provides definitions of all the terms and acronyms used in today's electrical and electronics literature.