Chambers Dictionary of Science and Technology (new edition)

Under various titles this Chambers dictionary has been a mainstay of library reference collections for more than half a century. It was first published as the Chambers Technical Dictionary in 1940, re‐launched after a series of revisions in 1971 as the Dictionary of Science and Technology, renamed in 1984 as the Chambers Science and Technology Dictionary, and renamed once again in 1995 as the Larousse Dictionary of Science and Technology. Finally it returned to the Chambers brand when it was last published in 1999 under its present title.

This latest incarnation consists of rather more than 50,000 short...