Synopses & Reviews
Our best-selling dictionary. With more than 200,000 clear definitions; over 20,000 new words; more than 2,500 illustrations; a style manual; 400 usage notes; regionalisms; an Appendix of Indo-European Roots; and biographical and geographic entries. The CD-ROM includes over 350,000 entries on a single disk. Recorded human voices pronounce each entry. System Requirements: CD-ROM drive with 8-bit sound card (MPC compliant); Windows: 3.1 or higher, 386/25 with 4 MB RAM, 2 MB hard-disk space; Mac: System 6.0.2 or higher, 1 MB RAM (2MB System 7), 500K hard-disk space.
About the Author
The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries and of other reference titles published by Houghton Mifflin Company are trained lexicographers with a varied array of interests and expertise. Most of the editors hold graduate degrees and have studied at least one foreign language. Several have degrees in linguistics or in the history of the English language. Others have degrees in science or sometimes other disciplines. All the editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work in association with consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.