What is the Meaning & Glossary definition

A glossary is a catalog that contains words belonging to the same discipline or field of study, appearing them explained, defined and discussed, but also a glossary can be a catalog of unusual words or all comments and glosses on texts by a particular author. Many times the glossary tends to be included at the end, or failing that, at the beginning of a book or an encyclopedia, in order to supplement the information that it provides. For example, a novel or play that develops its action in England it may include several terms in English, then, such terms are explained in the glossary and in this way the reader can understand more accurately the meaning of the text which is reading.
Almost always, the concept of glossary is parenting with the dictionary, because they more or less have the same function, although the dictionary what it does is collect and explain the meaning of the words of a given language or material in an orderly manner, i.e., order of alphabetical type.
There are different types of glossaries because each field and field will develop one in question. Thus an environmental glossary provide explanation of terms such as recycling, ecology and sustainable and one computer will take care to clarify those concepts such as hardware, software, internet, computer, among others.
Glossaries are mostly made by specialists in the fields over which deal and are running to reach a broader audience, i.e., seek to reach beyond those who are interested in the matter on which deal.
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