glossary

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Haystack, which provides businesses, including BuzzFeed Inc. and NerdWallet Inc., with internal communications software, is readying a tool called Glossary for companies and their workers to demystify corporate jargon.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 11, 2023

The Glossary of Meteorology defines “drought” as “a period of abnormally dry weather sufficiently prolonged for the lack of water to cause serious hydrologic imbalance in the affected area.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023

The first recorded mention of Beltane was in the 10th century CE text "Cormac's Glossary," known in Gaelic as "Sanas Cormaic."

From Salon • May 2, 2022

According to the “International Glossary of Hydrology,” a cloudburst is “a rainstorm of extraordinary intensity and relatively short duration” that can deliver thunder, hail, even flash floods to a previously untroubled day.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

In the Glossary the following statement appears: "Liquor candidus primo � fornace defluens cum Goselariae excoquitur pyrites,—kobelt; quem parietes fornacis exudant,—conterfei."

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius