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Dictionary "Kwangmyong 2003"

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 25 (KCNA) -- The Central Scientific and Technological Information Agency under the Academy of Sciences has made a scientific and technical dictionary "Kwangmyong 2003." The computer dictionary consists of 12 parts -- 8 main parts including scientific and technical vocabularies, multimedia, natural maps, panoramic views of animal life, scientific knowledge, famous scientists of the world and anecdotes about them, and 4 appendices including a newly developed dictionary in different languages and scientific and technical abbreviation dictionary.
    The dictionary contains over 140,000 vocabularies used in 26 scientific and technical fields, and more than 16,000 multimedia.
    It introduces over 1,560 famous natural scientists and hundreds of anecdotes about them, 1,400,000 vocabularies in seven languages -- Korean, English, Russian, French, German, Chinese and Japanese -- 20,000 scientific and technical vocabulary abbreviations, and 600 SI units.
    It gives a scientific and technical chronological table to show scientific and technical achievements made until 2001 from 100,000 years ago.