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• Description: Find thousands of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms; you can also search for words and find related acronyms
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• [Reviewed by: Reference Staff]

Acronym Server - http://silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/uncgi/acronyms

• Description: Search for an acronym and see its expansion or search for a word in the expansions and view related acronyms.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, April, 1998, p. 1344]

Information Please Home Page - http://www.infoplease.com/index.html

• Description: Free, electronic, online version of the Information Please Almanac.
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, Aug.1998]

Merriam-Webster online - http://www.m-w.com/

• Description: Searchable online dictionary and thesaurus
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• [Reviewed by: Choice, April, 1998, p. 1343]

OneLook Dictionaries - http://www.onelook.com/

• Description: Meta-dictionary site searches for words in over 350 dictionaries, including dictionaries of specialized vocabularies.
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• [Reviewed by: Staff]

Price's List of Lists - http://www.specialissues.com/lol/

• Description: A meta-list of lists on the Net. Includes all types of lists, including many published annually by magazines, such as the Fortune 500, the U.S. News and World Report College Rankings, or the Business Week Best Business Schools.
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