books of reference

  • 1Reference work — This article is about a kind of publication. Reference work may also refer to the work that librarians perform at a library reference desk. A reference work is a compendium of information, usually of a specific type, compiled in a book for ease… …

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  • 2Reference ranges for blood tests — Reference ranges edit in: blood urine CSF feces Reference ranges for blood tests are sets of values used by a health professional to interpret a set of …

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  • 3reference — ref‧er‧ence [ˈrefrəns] noun [countable] 1. with reference to formal used to say what you are writing or talking about, especially in business letters: • With reference to your recent advertisement, I am writing to apply for the post of sales… …

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  • 4Books on cryptography — have been published sporadically and with highly variable quality for a long time. This is despite the tempting, though superficial, paradox that secrecy is of the essence in sending confidential messages mdash; see Kerckhoffs principle. In… …

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  • 5Reference management software — Reference management software, citation management software or personal bibliographic management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations (references). Once a citation has been… …

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  • 6reference — [ref′ə rəns, ref′rəns] n. 1. a referring or being referred; esp., submission of a problem, dispute, etc. to a person, committee, or authority for settlement 2. relation; connection; regard [in reference to his letter] 3. a) the directing of… …

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  • 7reference library — reference ,library noun count a place containing a lot of reference books that you can read there but cannot take away …

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  • 8reference library — reference libraries N COUNT A reference library is a library that contains books which you can look at in the library itself but which you cannot borrow …

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  • 9reference library — reference .library n a public library or a room in a library, that contains books that you can read but not take away →↑lending library …

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  • 10reference books — books that are used as sources of specific information …

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