Download e-book for kindle: Elsevier's Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, by Vladimir Kotlyakov,Anna Komarova

Geography is a process of hugely constructed sciences concerning the surroundings. Geographical technology embracing the examine of the Earth's actual phenomena, humans and their financial actions has consistently been short of an in depth terminology. Geographical phrases are relating to the phrases of ordinary sciences (physics, chemistry, biology, geology, etc.) and arts (history, economics, sociology, etc.) on the grounds that geography is predicated on those primary topics.

Geography contains a variety of disciplines and subdivisions which seemed besides the advance of the technological know-how inspite of being very diverse geographical disciplines have a few universal instruments of research that is maps, comparative approach to exploration, distant sensing, geoinformation platforms.

Today rather well built terminologies of all of the expert fields of geography and similar topics exist normally international languages. notwithstanding, they don't seem to be regularly well-correlated. these days geographical terminology calls for unification and foreign correlation greater than ever prior to. as a result the belief of compiling a multilingual polydisciplinary dictionary.

The Dictionary involves the fundamental desk of phrases prepared in line with the order of the English alphabet with every one time period numbered. each one access involves the time period in English and its equivalents in Russian, French, German, Spanish. brief definitions of phrases are given in English and in Russian. The phrases are provided with the mandatory grammar labels, akin to gender of nouns, plural quantity, and so on.

The Dictionary combines capabilities: that of a defining dictionary and that of a bilingual dictionary. those services are primarily contradictory simply because frequently the defining dictionary is aimed toward giving one which means of the observe that is the most and crucial one, whereas the bilingual dictionary attempts to provide various equivalents of a given be aware within the different language for you to offer the person with greatest attainable translations, differing within the colours of meanings, hence giving him the chance to settle on the correct be aware. yet in our Dictionary we deliberately determined to mix the 2 capabilities – defining and multilingual, simply because a brief definition of the time period and equivalents in different languages aid to accomplish our major objective which is composed in displaying the fundamental geographical terminology and harmonizing it in different languages. Having this into account we intentionally combined sorts of dictionaries in one.

• Organized alphabetically through English
• Provides brief definition of geographical phrases in English and Russian
• Includes multilingual translation of phrases from English to Russian, French, German, Spanish