Glossary

A glossary is étymologiquement a collection of Glose S, i.e. of foreign or rare terms associated with their definitions and centered on a field whose it details the specific technical terms. example: glossary of data processing, medicine, biochemistry etc

Definition

The word glossary appeared in XVIe century, in the form `glossary'. It is borrowed of imperial Latin glossarium , of the same direction. It indicated in the past a dictionary explaining certain obscure words of a language by other terms of the same language. Today, it indicates the lexicon of a dialect, of a patois, words specific to a scientific discipline or technique, vocabulary specific to an author. One can thus to speak about “glossary about medicine”, which a priori will contain many words used by the doctors, of the “glossary of Rousseau”, which will contain an interpretation of the language of this author in our current language, etc The lexicon is the whole of the words of a language, the whole of the Lemme S. It thus has a range more general than the glossary, which is restricted with a particular field in general.

Method of construction

The glossary generally has an index. The words are arranged alphabetically to simplify research, and especially by comfort. Often presented and confused with the dictionary, the definitions of the glossary are not inevitably the same ones as in a dictionary; indeed, one gives the definition of the word in the context in which it is used, or the field to which it is referred. Thus, the word `glass' will not have the same definition in a glossary on materials as in a glossary of optics, for example. This is why it is necessary to present in the title of the glossary to what it refers: For example, “Glossary of the People Press”, “data-processing glossary of such Internet site”.

Interest of the glossary

With a glossary, one has access to all the definitions necessary to include/understand the technical terms of a subject or a field, which are gathered at the same place. It is thus easier to find the direction of a term than if one must reparcourir a whole work. It is often more useful than to put a definition at the foot of the page, or worse, between hooks in the text. It is thus important that it is most complete possible, and that one finds there in particular the jargon used in each specific field.

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