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INFO Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature
INFO Gazetteer of planetary nomenclature
INFO Gazetteer of Yukon
INFO Genre terms a thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloging /
INFO Geographical Names Board1
INFO Geographical names of Canada
INFO Geologic names lexicon, "GEOLEX"
GEOLEX is a search tool for lithologic and geochronologic unit names in the United States and its possessions and territories
INFO GEOnet names server
Provides access to NIMA's database of foreign geographic feature names. Information in this database has been used to prepare and publish the series of foreign country gazetteers approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names
INFO Georgia place-names
INFO Geoscience Australia place name search
Searches the Gazetteer of Australia 2006 which is a compilation of over 322,000 geographic names in Australia provided by members of the Committee for Geographic Names in Australasia
INFO Getty thesaurus of geographic names on line
Contains nearly 1 million place names representing approximately 900,000 places. Composed of names and other information contributed by several Getty projects, including the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), the Foundation for Documents of Architecture (FDA), the Getty Center Photo Study Collection (GCPS), and the Getty Information Institutes Vocabulary Program (VP). The TGN is the only available automated geographical resource that is hierarchical, global in scope, and targeted at researchers, catalogers, librarians, and archivists dealing with the history of art and architecture. The logical focus of a TGN record is the "place." Each place has attributes, including names, place types and coordinates. The places are arranged in hierarchies representing the current political and physical world
INFO Glossary
Glossary of fisheries terms. Users can search or browse for specific terms, or view terms by broad subject area (e.g., fishing technology; inland resources aquaculture; international agreements; legal; marine resources; policy & planning; post harvest trade; statistics)
INFO Glossary of aquaculture /
INFO Glossary of coastal terminology /
"This coastal glossary includes terminology used in coastal science, engineering, geology, management, nearshore oceanography, and the technologies that characterize, measure, describe or quantify the physical properties, processes and changes of the coastal zone"--Pref
INFO Glossary of forestry terms in British Columbia
INFO Glossary of German publishing terminology
Provides English translations to German publishing terms
INFO Glossary of Internet Terms
Alphabetic listing of Internet terms
INFO Glossary of lake and water terms
INFO Glossary of library terms
INFO Glossary of musical terms
Alphabetic list of musical terms including musical instruments, musical forms, notation, and music history
INFO Glossary of nomenclatural terms used in zoology
INFO Glossary of plasma physics and fusion energy research
Online glossary covering the scientific vocabulary of the disciplines associated with plasma physics and fusion energy research, names of research facilities, experimental machines and devices used, names of prominent researchers in the field, funding authorities active in the field, mathematical symbols in common use, and acronyms frequently used in these disciplines
INFO Glossary of pollen and spore terminology
INFO grand dictionnaire terminologique (GDT)
INFO Grove music online - UW restricted UW restricted
Includes the full text with ongoing updates of The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians, 2nd ed., The new Grove dictionary of opera, and The new Grove dictionary of Jazz, 2nd ed
INFO Historical thesaurus - UW restricted UW restricted
INFO Hobson-Jobson; a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive,
INFO How many? a dictionary of units of measurement /
INFO IMI Israel Music Institute
Biographical dictionary of Israel composers. Some entries include lists of compositions. Also provides photographs of some of the biographees
INFO Imperial gazetteer of India
INFO Index nominum genericorum (ING)
A compilation of generic names published for all plants covered by the International code of botanical nomenclature
INFO Index to organism names ION
"ION contains all the animal, plant, and virus names data found within the Thomson BIOSIS literature databases - Zoological Record, BIOSIS Previews and Biological Abstracts. Bacteria names will be added soon."
INFO ism book a field guide to the nomenclature of philosophy /
A dictionary of philosophical terms ending in "ism."
INFO IUPAC nomenclature of organic chemistry
INFO JAANUS Japanese architectural and art net users system
JAANUS is an online dictionary of Japanese architecture and art history terminology. The dictionary contains approximately 8000 terms related to traditional Japanese architecture and gardens, painting, sculpture and art-historical iconography from approximately the 1st century A.D. to the end of the Edo period (1868). It is searchable in English and romanized Japanese, and has linked cross references; some entries are illustrated
INFO Jim Breen's WWWJDIC server
INFO Joint thesaurus
The Joint Thesaurus contains the controlled terminology for indexing all information within the subject scopes of the International Nuclear Information System (INIS) and the Energy Technology Data Exchange (ETDE). The terminology is intended for use in subject descriptions for input or retrieval of information in these systems
INFO Kamus interaktif Indonesian-Ingriss Interactive dictionary Indonesian-English
Easy to use searchable dictionary provides English term along with definitions in Indonesian. Includes usage examples
INFO Key names a gazetteer of the islands of the Florida Keys /
INFO Lantmateriet
Lantmateriet is the national place-name authority in Sweden, and thereby has the job of establishing place names, co-ordinate governmental place-name operations and give advice and recommendations concerning place names. It also is responsible for land use and cadastral procedures
INFO lexicon of cave and karst terminology with special reference to environmental karst hydrology
INFO Leximagne l'empereur des pages dico
Links to nearly 1000 electronic French dictionaries, glossaries and wordlists
INFO Lincoln County place names
INFO Linguistic glossary
INFO Literaturport
Online resource for biographical and bibliographical information on contemporary German-language authors; with audio samples, prize winners, and announcements of current literary events
INFO Luxembourg gazetteer of villages and towns

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