Abbreviations Dictionary - Hardcover

De Sola, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444008071 ISBN 13: 9780444008077

Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd, 1967

Synopsis

Explains the meanings of more than 178,000 acronyms, abbreviations, contractions, initials, short forms of words, signs, and symbols

About this title

Review

...this volume is essential. Its worth is enhanced by a listing of nicknames and appellations that are otherwise likely to be incomprehensible to foreigners...an essential addition to public, academic, and corporate reference libraries.
-The San Diego Union
This book has it all...besides being informative, the book is interesting and fun.
-Veterinary and Human Toxicology
This is a useful book and should appeal to the individual or library acquisitions director with a limited budget.
-Verbatim

An up-to-date source for locating some of the most elusive segments of our language.
-Booknotes
[This] compilation of abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, terms, etc., is an excellent source for information that is not found in other works.
-Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association
The classic status of this title endures: abbreviations are again joined by a dazzling array of acronyms, contractions, initials, nicknames, short forms, signs and symbols. Its 15,000 new terms swell the dictionary to nearly 300,000 entries...excellent and unique...
--S. Swanson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, CHOICE, October 2001, Vol. 39 No. 2

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science Ltd
• Publication date: 1967
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444008071
• ISBN 13: 9780444008077
• Binding: Hardcover