Thesaurus

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The word thesaurus is New Latin for treasure; coined in the early 1820's. Besides its meaning as a treasury or storehouse, it more commonly means a listing of words that are related by similar meanings. For example, a book of jargon for a specialized field; or more generally a list of subject headings and cross-references used in the filing and retrieval of documents.

In Information Technology, a thesaurus represents a database or list of semantically orthogonal topical search keys. In the field of Artificial Intelligence, a thesaurus may sometimes be referred to as an ontology.

Examples:

Thesaurus of English Words & Phrases (ed. P. Roget); ISBN: 0062720376
Webster's New World Thesaurus (ed. C. Laird); ISBN: 0671519832
Oxford American Desk Thesaurus (ed. C. Lindberg); ISBN: 0195126742
Evaluation Thesaurus (by. M. Scriven); ISBN:0803943644
Great Song Thesaurus (by R. Lax & F. Smith); ISBN:0195054083
Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms (APA); ISBN: 1557987750
Clinician's Thesaurus, (by E.Zuckerman); ISBN:157230569X
Thesaurus Musicarum Italicarum, (Utrecht U.); http://www.euromusicology.org/
Thesaurus.com, (Lexico, Inc.); http://www.Thesaurus.com
Cyc Knowledge Base, (Cycorp, Inc.); http://www.cyc.com