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Encyclopedia

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Noun

1. cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedia

a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty

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Encyclopedia

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noun
a book, often in many volumes, containing articles on various topics, often arranged in alphabetical order, dealing either with the whole range of human knowledge or with one particular subject
a medical encyclopedia

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Encyclopedia

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noun
1. 
a book or set of books giving information on all or many branches of knowledge, generally in articles alphabetically arranged
2. 
a similar work giving information in a particular field of knowledge
an encyclopedia of philosophy

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Encyclopedia

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n.
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on a wide range of subjects or on numerous aspects of a particular field, usually arranged alphabetically.

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