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n. - A reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty.

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  • A leading cyclopedia concludes a brief article on the Missouri
  • I'm flattered that you decided to do a biography of me and my band in your e-cyclopedia.
  • Before him, indeed, was a very lexicon of air, a dictionary or cyclopedia that would be hard to exhaust.
  • Strategies responding to early modern information overload, such as the cyclopedia, exit from the other side.
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