Webster's New College Dictionary offers more than 5,000 words and senses from all areas of vocabulary with special emphasis on high technology, science, medicine and social change. Biographical and geographical entries are completely updated, reflecting current events and the latest censuses. Includes contemporary typefaces, more than 400 updated drawings, tables for world Alphabets, Bible, Calendar, Currency, Elements, Geologic Time and Measurement as well as a style guide and section of forms of address.