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Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a reference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge, either general or special, in a particular field or discipline. Encyclopedias are divided into articles or entries that are arranged alphabetically by article name or by thematic categories, or, in the case of online encyclopedias, they are hyperlinked and searchable.…

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Etymology

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Pre-modern encyclopedias

Printed encyclopedias

Digital encyclopedias

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Encyclopedia

Nodes186
Edges185
Triples215
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.010753
Components1

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Encyclopedia

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related to Printed encyclopedias · 37
Encyclopedia → Aldo Manuzio, Also, Anton Koberger, Archimedes, Art, Arts, Arts Themselves, Asia, Before, Both Latin, English Lexicon Technicum, Explaining, Financial, German, Germany, Giorgio Valla, Greek, Gregor Reisch, However, John Harris
related to External links · 23
Encyclopedia → America, Americana, Archived July, Biographical, Boston, Britannica, CNET, Co, Cyclopaedia, De, Diderot's, Digital, Encyclopaedia, Encyclopédie, First Renaissance, Francis Lieber, HypertextInternet Accuracy Project, Michigan Making, Mussey, Stout
related to Four major elements · 22
Encyclopedia → As, Britannica, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedias, Encyclopédie, English-language Encyclopædia Britannica, Everything2, Four, Further, General, German Brockhaus, Great Soviet Encyclopedia, Horace, Interpedia, Microsoft Encarta, Projects, Some, The, There, What
related to Encyclopédie · 20
Encyclopedia → According, Alembert, Arts, Crafts, Denis Diderot, Diderot, Encyclopédie, Encyclopédie's, Encyclopédistes, Enlightenment, France, French, IPA-label-small, It, Jean, Rond, Sciences, Systematic Dictionary, The Encyclopédie, Thus
related to Pre-modern encyclopedias · 20
Encyclopedia → AD, Among, BCE, Catholic Church, Christian, Elder, Etymologiae, Isidore, Natural History, Naturalis Historia, Of, Orig, Origines, Pliny, Roman, Seville, The, The Spanish, This, Varro
related to Encyclopedias in the United States · 15
Encyclopedia → As, Collier's Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, Funk, He, In, Jack Lynch, The, They, United States, Up, Wagnalls, World Book, You, You Could Look It
related to Etymology · 14
Encyclopedia → American English, Because, British English, English, Following Noah Webster's, Greek, However, Koine Greek, Latin, Neo-Latin, Pliny, Quintillian, Roman, The
related to Brockhaus Enzyklopädie · 13
Encyclopedia → Brockhaus, Brockhaus Encyclopedia, Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Conversations-Lexikon, Franke, German, German-language, It, Leipzig, Renamed Der Große Brockhaus, Renatus Gotthelf Löbel, The, The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie
related to Online · 10
Encyclopedia → Academic American Encyclopedia, An, Britannica, Encarta, Encyclopædia Britannica, Grokipedia, Internet, Some, Wikipedia, World Wide Web
related to Physical media · 10
Encyclopedia → By, CD-ROM, CD-ROMs, DVD, In, Later, Microsoft Windows, Such, The, This

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Important terminology

encyclopedias articles dictionary printed knowledge online entries britannica work century wikipedia first published information dictionaries also words edition article encyclopédie

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Encyclopediais areference work or compendium providing summaries of knowledge0.90text
Wikipediainstance ofand other educational institutions.In the 21st century the appearance of digital and open-source versions0.80text
Interpediainstance ofProjects0.80text
Everything2instance ofProjects0.80text
Microsoft Encartainstance ofProjects0.80text
h2g2instance ofProjects0.80text
and Wikipedia are examples of new forms of the encyclopedia as information retrieval becomes simplerinstance ofProjects0.80text
Encyclopediarelated to Brockhaus EnzyklopädieThe Brockhaus Enzyklopädie0.60section
Encyclopediarelated to Brockhaus EnzyklopädieGerman0.60section
Encyclopediarelated to Brockhaus EnzyklopädieBrockhaus Encyclopedia0.60section
Encyclopediarelated to Brockhaus EnzyklopädieGerman-language0.60section
Encyclopediarelated to Brockhaus EnzyklopädieBrockhaus0.60section

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