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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IS GROWING, accelerated by the Internet, e-commerce, and global busi­ness. Each day, around the world, students, teachers, business people, and consumers are confronted with new words and terms. The need for an up-to-date guide to this dynamic lan­guage has never been greater.

The first entirely new college dictionary to be published in three decades, the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary is com­piled from a revolutionary computer database of English as it is spoken arour the world. It is also the only college dictionary to go straight to the college professors who are helping the current generation of students to use English. This College Advisory Board of university teachers of English has supplied firsthand information on the areas of language that cause their students the most difficulty, which the dictionary addresses with clear, specific Usage Notes.

In addition to all the solid scholarship and complete coverage of traditional dictionaries, the Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary includes these innovative features:

• CLEAR, ACCESSIBLE DEFINITION STYLE and a unique QUICK DEFINITION SYSTEM, with brief definitions in bold, enable the reader to quickly pick out the needed meaning
• USAGE NOTES covering the most common student problems with spelling, grammar, punctuation, and style
• QUICK FACTS: short digests of key concepts in the arts and sciences
• LITERARY LINKS: notes on major works of literature
• INTERNET GUIDE: how to use the Web effectively as a tool for research
• SPELLCHECKS: frequently misused spellings clearly indicated with the correct spelling shown
• COMMONLY MISSPELLED WORDS-clearly flagged as errors—entered at the place where they will be looked up by the user
• Comprehensive coverage of HIGH-TECHNOLOGY, SCIENTIFIC, and BUSINESS terms
• Over 1000TABLES, ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS, and PHOTOS

Providing distinct advantages over traditional dictionaries and containing the word base and innovative features that can truly meet the higher literacy demands, online research requirements, and up-to-the-minute needs of academic life in the third millennium,

Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary is the reference work of choice for today's—and tomorrow's—world.

SOME NEW WORDS UNIQUE TO THIS DICTIONARY:

barista, biosurgery, convention bounce, custom drug, destination wedding, e-signature, fiber media, Fujita scale, functional medicine, genetic discrim­ination, Internet hotel, micropower, near-earth object, protein engineering, spyware, tweenager, viral marketing, voxel