The Dictionary of Terms of the Natural Stone and Allied Industries (Alcaraz Varo, E.; Hughes, B; Mateo Martínez, J; Vargas Sierra, C. y Gómez González-Jover, A.) is the first in the series of Dictionaries of Industrial terms published by Editorial Ariel. It is designed to cover the specialist terminology in use in the natural stone and associated industries, such as the quarrying and building sectors, including secondary and building materials and machine parts and processes.

The dictionary contains an English-Spanish and a Spanish-English section, each with close to 12.000 lexical items. Most of the entries consist of four elements: (a) the translation of the item listed; (b) an explanation in the form of a brief comment intended to clarify the sense, use and range of the term; (c) a short example or illustration providing a contextual setting for the meaning given; and (d) a set of reciprocally arranged cross-references to help to refine the definition of the term by directing attention to others of related meaning. The overall aim is to enable the user to pinpoint the meaning of each of the items listed as precisely as possible by combining these four parameters.

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PhD. Ms. Chelo Vargas
Universidad de Alicante
Dpto. Filología Inglesa
Apdo. 99
03080 Alicante
Spain