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Academia - Collins - Pocket Scientific Dictionaries - Mathematics - English - French - Arabic

Composition
Christopher Jones
Peter Klump
Translated by Afif Al-Razzaz

Publisher's introduction

Academia N presents to Arabic readers this series of “scientific pocket dictionaries,” which we hope will fill a void in the Arabic library.

This series, consisting of five dictionaries: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and computers, aims to provide the Arab reader - especially university and high school students - with these subjects based on their original references in English and French.

Each of these dictionaries contains hundreds of basic terms, with an accurate scientific definition for each term. It was co-authored in English by a group of scholars in the Reference Dictionary Department at the British Collins Publishing House, and it resembled simplified encyclopedic dictionaries in which the student and teacher found what they needed from unknown terms or whose definitions fell short of providing their correct meanings.

Just as the work of the authors was unique in terms of being precise in expression and selection, so the work of the translators and reviewers was distinctive in terms of selecting the Arabic and French interviews, which we intended to be as easy, simple, and intelligible as possible so as not to add to the difficulty of the material with linguistic difficulty, thus making the matter more complicated for those searching for an explanation. And clarification.

Therefore, we have always sought the easiest and most clear terms: when there is more than one synonym for one term, but without deviating from the previously mentioned translations that are either approved by language academies, or have become commonly used in Arabic scientific books and journals.

The result of this effort was this series of five dictionaries, which can be described as unique in the Arab world. Perhaps the most important thing about it is that it makes it easier for the Arab reader - and the student in particular - to keep up with the latest scientific and technological developments and achievements, relying on their original sources, even if he suffers from a weak grasp of the vocabulary of the subject he is researching. He is helped in this by the explanations attached to each entry in the dictionary.

“Pocket scientific dictionaries” are a special kind of educational tool, designed to help students, professors, and general readers understand science and technology in today’s world, and use them correctly, based on the accuracy of the choice of word and clarity of meaning.

How to use the dictionary

1 - The terms of this dictionary are arranged according to the English alphabetical order of all letters of the entry, whether it consists of one word or of several words.

2 - The English term was written on a separate line starting from the left, in black letters, then the French equivalent was written below it, also from the left, accompanied by a sign specifying its parsing. As for the Arabic equivalent, it was written on the next line from the right, in black letters, followed by the definition of the term in Arabic alone.

3 - Some definitions include words in black with their English counterparts directly in front of them. These words have separate entries in the dictionary.

4 - One English entry may have more than one French entry.
It may have more than one Arabic equivalent.
It may have several definitions, each of which is given a serial number.

5 - Referrals: move the user of the dictionary to an entry defined elsewhere. It was used to facilitate finding terms that may be written in different forms, or terms derived from the first letters of several words, symbols, etc..

6 - Figures and appendices: There are a number of illustrations in the dictionary that complement the definitions and help in understanding them. The dictionary is appended with a number of lists, appendices, and graphic tables.

7 - Glossaries: It was seen that, in order to complement the benefit of the dictionary and its use in all Arab countries, two glossaries should be appended to it: an Arabic-English glossary, and a French-English glossary, with proof of the English origin in which each term was translated.
The glossaries are arranged based on the Arabic or French alphabetical order.