work of reference
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The accessibility and the miraculous compactness of this set are bound to be its huge selling point; as a handy work of reference, certainly, it's hard to fault.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 17, 2013
No work of reference has been more useful and successful, or more frequently copied, imitated and translated, than that known as the Conversations Lexikon of Brockhaus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
It is an incomparable work of reference, for home or school. 1,000 6x9 pages, nearly 1,000 illustrations, 12 folding plates.
From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Victor Wilfred Pag?
Within the last ten years the progress of discovery in every department of knowledge has made a new work of reference an imperative want.
From The Electoral Votes of 1876 Who Should Count Them, What Should Be Counted, and the Remedy for a Wrong Count by David Dudley Field
The work will stand as a work of reference on physiology.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre
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