glossary

glossary

[′gläs·ə·rē]

(computer science)

A file of commonly used phrases that can be retrieved in a word-processing program, usually through use of a command and a keyword.

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glossary

(1) See glossaries in this publication.

(2) See The Computer Glossary.

(3) A Microsoft Word term that was also adopted by other word processors for the list of keyboard macros created by a user.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Glossary

 

in linguistics dictionaries, an alphabetical listing of words or phrases to be defined or translated.

V. V. TABENSKII

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