This sixth edition of A Dictionary of Science, like its predecessors, aims to provide
school and first-year university students with accurate explanations of any unfamiliar
words they might come... More > across in the course of their studies, in their own or adjacent
disciplines. For example, students of the physical sciences will find all they are likely to
need to know about the life sciences, and vice versa. The dictionary is also designed to
provide non-scientists with a useful reference source to explain the scientific terms
that they may encounter in their work or in their general reading.< Less
