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s The fourth edition (1978) is cited in Sheehy (under the title Electronics Dictionary). The fifth edition adds some 1,200 new entries (totaling approximately 14,000) and 150 new illustrations, reflecting the explosive progress in the field of electronics. Many of the new terms have their origins in the expanding fields of personal computing, on-line networks, and electronic media. Other terms have been derived from the marriage between electronics and such specialized sciences as optics, metallurgy, biophysics, and astrophysics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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CHOICE Review

This is another update of the original 1945 Electronics Dictionary considered a classic in the electrical and electronics fields. This comprehensive work's outstanding contribution as a technical dictionary is its clarity and nonmathematical language. It provides authoritative explanations of terms, concepts, and procedures for researchers, technical writers, and laypersons. It also includes hard-to-locate acronyms and abbreviations and terms borrowed from such other fields as computer science, physics, and biology. The dictionary underwent several revisions, including those of 1960 and 1966 under the title of Electronics and Nucleonics Dictionary. Well illustrated using black line drawings, schematics, and paradigms. Recommended for public and academic libraries. R. Comeau; New Hampshire Technical College at Manchester

Booklist Review

Revised after 20 years, this fifth edition contains 14,000 entries, 1,200 of them new, and 150 new illustrations. The brief definitions are written for laypersons, and care has been taken to include such phrases as binary-to-decimal conversions as well as derivations of acronyms and abbreviations. Few of the definitions include more than one meaning for a term, and mathematical equations are infrequent. The illustrations are line drawings, easy to comprehend and trace if need be. There are no added features included as appendixes. The dictionary faces competition from a new work prepared by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), The New IEEE Standard Dictionary of Electrical and Electronics Terms (1993). IEEE contains more definitions, which are keyed to current IEEE and ANSI standards. These definitions are highly technical, with math symbols and equations incorporated in lengthly definitions that are often full-blown discussions. IEEE is also well illustrated. The McGraw-Hill dictionary contains 35 definitions for words or phrases beginning with power, three of which run to 10 lines; the IEEE has more than 100, some of them covering up to three or four columns. These two subject dictionaries complement one another. McGraw-Hill offers clear definitions for technical terms as well as terms associated with popular related disciplines such as space exploration. IEEE is intended for advanced students and experienced practitioners, the ideal companion to McGraw-Hill's Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers, 12th ed. (1987). Both dictionaries are recommended for academic and large public library collections. (Reviewed July 1994)