Author: Russkiy Yazyk - Media Edition: 1
Update: 2008-08-31
Total words: 49792 Grade:
The Dictionary contains about 65,000 terms which cover the following branches of construction studies: engineering buildings and tools, construction and installation work, hydroengineering, engineering networks, construction materials and technologies, construction and road-building machines, construction tools, construction management, design, urban planning, ecology of construction, types of buildings and installations, architecture, theoretical foundations of construction.
The Dictionary also contains terminology from related fields, including commercial and legal aspects of construction, trade in construction materials, valiation and trade in real estate.
The Dictionary has been compiled to meet the needs of many specialists in construction industry and related fields, as well as of university professors, students and translators. It will be very useful for all specialists working on international construction projects.
This Dictionary is the first attempt in Russian lexicography to provide an all-encompassing snapshot of the current British, American, and Russian terminology related to technology and applied sciences. The Dictionary was compiled by a large team of experts specializing in various areas of scientific knowledge and technical translation.
The authors and the publisher did their best to include as many terms as possible.
Detailed entries have labels indicating to which branch of science or technology the given meaning belongs. In some cases, the most typical collocations are given.
Headwords are either verbs or nouns. Adjectives can be found in the corresponding noun entries.