(n.) The circle or compass of the arts and sciences (originally, of the seven so-called liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.
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Encyclopaedia
Definition:
(n.) The circle of arts and sciences; a comprehensive summary of knowledge, or of a branch of knowledge; esp., a work in which the various branches of science or art are discussed separately, and usually in alphabetical order; a cyclopedia.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are all newspaper editors who have been roundly ignored by online encyclopaedia Wikipedia .
(2) Now the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit group which runs the collaboratively edited encyclopaedia, has posted the notices of removal from Google online .
(3) Diagnostic Encyclopaedia Workstation (DEW) is the name of a digital encyclopaedia constructed to contain reference knowledge with respect to the pathology of the ovary.
(4) A block on all language editions of the online encyclopaedia was detected at 5am GMT on Saturday, monitoring group Turkey Blocks said on its website.
(5) My mother promoted my intellectual tendencies and one of my great Christmas presents was Arthur Mee's Children's Encyclopaedia, which I consumed.
(6) Jimmy Wales , co-founder of Wikipedia, said that as a result of the revelations about surveillance, the collaborative online encyclopaedia will begin encrypting communications with its users all over the world so that people cannot be spied on as they access information.
(7) "I sold encyclopaedias in New Orleans, I was a social worker in Haringey.
(8) He cut up a 10-volume illustrated Larousse encyclopaedia he'd bought in Bath, apparently using 32 pairs of scissors, and his collage technique helps depict such Thomas phrases as "slow clocks" (cue for several whirring time-pieces) or "the boys are dreaming wicked" (two pin-ups and touches of a Wild West rodeo).
(9) The centuries which followed witnessed a wealth of descriptions which, thanks in particular to the works of Celsus, Galen and the Arab authors, led to the formation of true medical encyclopaedias, although the diagnosis of skin diseases could not be approached.
(10) The stories of Ibori's "generosity" are enough to fill the pages of an encyclopaedia.
(11) Roth has recently turned his attentions towards trying to persuade Wikipedia , the collaborative online encyclopaedia, to let him adjust an inaccurate description of his novel, The Human Stain.
(12) Bishop, a walking encyclopaedia of house practice, knew the result of naming a Labor member.
(13) However, the episode was airbrushed away on the online encyclopaedia.
(14) A Freedom of Information request , which would reveal whether MPs and peers were engaging in “astroturfing” on the crowdsourced encyclopaedia, was turned down on the basis that “releasing the information would be likely to prejudice the prevention or detection of crime.” The @ParliamentEdits Twitter account, set up by the journalist and developer Tom Scott, was designed to automatically tweet whenever Wikipedia was edited by someone within the Houses of Parliament.
(15) The update places results pulled from Google’s Knowledge Graph – a database containing encyclopaedia entries on about 570m concepts, relationships, facts and figures – under small popup information panels next to search results.
(16) Caliendo, 61, found early success selling encyclopaedias door-to-door, rose up the ranks of the De Agostini publishing group, then in 1979 fixed what were thought to be the first personal endorsements by an Italian footballer, for the international playmaker Giancarlo Antognoni.
(17) Wikipedia has been forced to ban users inside the US Congress building from making edits to the collaborative encyclopaedia, after at least one member of staff began trolling the site.
(18) Now, what else can I tell you?” He mulls something over, then says: “No, I can’t tell you that.” We are in the office of DK Books, which is publishing an exhaustive new Star Wars encyclopaedia to which Daniels has contributed the foreword.
(19) Back in 2004, Berger's debut, Torremolinos 73 , a terrific, oddball sex comedy about husband and wife amateur pornographers during the Franco regime (their first home movies are for the cheekily disingenuous World Audiovisual Encyclopaedia of Reproduction) was a critical and commercial hit.
(20) Images on the world’s largest encyclopaedia must be licensed in such a way that they can be re-used under the same free license that the site itself is licensed.