0 a book or set of books containing many articles arranged in alphabetical order that deal either with the whole of human knowledge or with a particular part of it, or a similar set of articles on the internet -- 百科全書；（某一學科的）專科全書，大全
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language 劍橋語言百科全書
A special subgroup, possibly the most important for the study of science and philosophy, are the tri-partite encyclopedias.
He shone in conferences because he had a fantastic memory for facts about theatre - he was an unindexed encyclopedia of world theatre.
The most common results, then, are books that are something like dictionaries, something like encyclopedias and, often, something like cabinets of curiosities.
Theoretical diversity also matches the substantive diversity of contemporary western politics, which is (despite the editors stated contrary intention) the primary focus of this encyclopedia.
Our encyclopedia is already delivered via online services, videodisc.
The essays had already been superseded by specialist treatises and by much bigger encyclopedias.
Never mind these uppity modern digraphs: words like encyclopedia, anaemia etc rejoiced in proper diphthongs during my formative years.
Rather, encyclopedias became reflexive; they described themselves as the science of science - which presupposed that science existed independently of encyclopedias.
