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• Acronym Database
  http://www.ucc.ie/acronyms/index.html
  This is a list of acronyms (abbreviations constructed mostly from the initial letters of the words of a phrase), gathered from many network sources and submitted by users
  
  
• Acronym Finder
  http://www.AcronymFinder.com/
  The Acronym Finder (AF) is a world wide web (WWW) searchable database of common acronyms about computers, technology, and telecommunications, with an emphasis on Department of Defense (DoD), Air Force, Army, and Navy acronyms.
  
  
• BioTech's Life Science Dictionary
  http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/
  dict-search.html
  Currently, most of the 8300+ terms deal with biochemistry, biotechnology, botany, cell biology and genetics.
  
  
• Compendium of Environmental Acronyms
  http://www.umr.edu/~aeg/arco/arco.html
  An alphabetical listing of acronyms (and what they stand for) related to the environment.
  
  
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
  http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/index.html
  By the Department of Computing, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London
  
  
• The Glossarist
  http://www.glossarist.com/
  A subject organized and searchable directory of glossaries available on the Internet.
  
  
• Glossary of Internet Terms
  http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
  By Matisse Enzer.
  
  
• Glossary of Mathematical Terms
  http://www.cut-the-knot.com/glossary/atop.shtml
  By Alexander Bogomolny.
  
  
• MedTerms Medical Dictionary
  http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/
  AlphaIdx.asp?li=MNI&p=A_DICT
  Enter a search term or browse through an alphabetical list of medical terms.
  
  
• NetLingo
  http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.cfm
  NetLingo is an online dictionary about the Internet. It contains thousands of words and definitions that describe the technology and community of the World Wide Web
  
  
• Pharma Lexicon
  http://www.pharma-lexicon.com/
  Look up medical & pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations from our database of over 56,000.
  
  
• ROGET'S Thesaurus
  http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/
  ROGET.html
  Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911.
  
  
• Rhymezone Dictionary
  http://www.rhymezone.com/
  Find rhyming words with this easy to use dictionary. The site also has information on Shakespeare, quotations, famous documents, quizzes, Mother Goose and more.
  
  
• SYMBOLS.com -- Encyclopedia of Western Signs and Ideograms
  http://www.symbols.com/
  The world's largest on-line encyclopedia of graphic symbols. SYMBOLS.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics.
  
  
• Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Glossary
  http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
  Includes pronunciations and examples.
  
  
• VoyCabulary
  http://www.voycabulary.com/
  VoyCabulary is a powerful web tool which will link web pages or phrases to online references like dictionaries or thesauruses -- This provides a convenient and speedy way to lookup words quickly and efficiently, without disrupting your normal web browsing... If you don't want to process a web page, but have some text (maybe from a word processor), you may simply cut and paste it into the text box and VoyCabulary will process it as well.
  
  
• Weather Glossary
  http://www.weather.com/glossary/a.html
  From the Weather Channel.
  
  
• Webopedia
  http://www.webopedia.com/
  Online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology. Search for a term or browse by categories.
  
  
• WebWise Glossary
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/webwise/glossary/
  Internet terms defined by the BBC.
  

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