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AN accurate and reasonably comprehensive technical dictionary has become an almost indispensable adjunct to the equipment of the scientific worker, and also to that of the layman who desires to march with the times. The prodigious growth of knowledge in the natural sciences and their applications has, moreover, necessitated the coinage of a multitude of new words, and if a majority of these can be found, alongside the old ones, within the limits of a single volume, much time is saved and efficiency gained. No single technical dictionary can aspire to completeness, but every good one should include the essential words and expressions, and be available at moderate cost.
Chambers's Technical Dictionary
Comprising Terms used in Pure and Applied Science, Medicine, the Chief Manufacturing Industries, Engineering, Construction, the Mechanic Trades. Edited by C. F. Tweney Dr. L. E. C. Hughes. Pp. viii + 960. (London and Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, Ltd., 1940.) 15s. net.
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T., E. Chambers's Technical Dictionary. Nature 147, 372 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147372a0
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