Encarta dictionary is most used in knowledge domains by students and researchers. Encarta Dictionary is a comprehensive database of words which you need to know to enrich your word power. Developed under the banner of software giant i. In fact when we will use it you will find out that its more than your expectations. Nothing to be surprised, Microsoft has always come up with expectations which has made it an undisputed champion in software world.
Encarta Dictionary has a very user friendly interface which will let you sail smoothly while going on the voyage of improving vocabulary. At the top left of the interface there is a search bar in which you type your word you are looking for and below this search bar is a drop down menu in order to filter your search.
Beginning with Encarta , however, when Websters Multimedia took over its maintenance, Encarta became a feature of Microsoft Student.
Although it was possible to purchase only the Encarta encyclopedia separately, Microsoft Student bundles together Encarta Premium with Microsoft Math a graphing-calculator program and Learning Essentials, which provides templates for Microsoft Office. In addition, the Reference Library was discontinued, absorbed into a newer, more comprehensive Premium package. Encarta ' s user interface was shared with Microsoft Student, and was streamlined to reduce clutter with only a Search box which returned relevant results; however it became no longer possible to simply browse all the encyclopedia articles alphabetically.
The dynamic maps were generated with the same engine that powered Microsoft MapPoint software. The map was a virtual globe that one could freely rotate and magnify to any location down to major streets for big cities. The globe had multiple surfaces displaying political boundaries, physical landmarks, historical maps and statistical information. One could selectively display statistical values on the globe surface or in a tabular form, different sized cities, various geological or man-made features and reference lines in a map.
The maps contained hyperlinks to related articles 'Map Trek' and also supported a 'Dynamic Sensor' that provides the latitude, longitude, place name, population and local time for any point on the globe.
Encarta also generated a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it did not include a planetarium, but instead had a small interactive constellation-only map.
In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in Encarta 'Historical Maps' were drawn by artists. Some more advanced maps were interactive: for example, the large African map for Africana could display information such as political boundaries or the distribution of African flora. There was some controversy over the decision, since the dictionary lacks the other books provided in 'Bookshelf' which many found to be a useful reference, such as Columbia Dictionary of Quotations replaced with a quotations section in Encarta that links to relevant articles and people and an Internet Directory although many of the sites listed in offline directories no longer exist.
Before the emergence of the World Wide Web for information browsing, Microsoft recognized the importance of having an engine that supported a multimediamarkup language, full text search, and extensibility using software objects. The hypertext display, hyperlinking and search software was created by a team of CD-ROM Division developers in the late s who designed it as a generalized engine for uses as diverse as interactive help, document management systems and as ambitious as a multimedia encyclopedia.
Encarta was able to use various Microsoft technologies because it was extensible with software components for displaying unique types of multimedia information. For example, a snap in map engine is adapted from its MapPoint software. Visit the new site with updated content at www.
Alternative you can simply hold ALT while clicking on your target word. Related Links Elsewhere on this site Home. There was also a 'Geography Quiz' and several other games and quizzes, some quizzes also in Encarta Kids. For years, Encarta came in three primary software editions: Standard, Premium, and Reference Library price and features in that order. Beginning with Encarta , however, when Websters Multimedia took over its maintenance, Encarta became a feature of Microsoft Student.
Although it was possible to purchase only the Encarta encyclopedia separately, Microsoft Student bundles together Encarta Premium with Microsoft Math a graphing-calculator program and Learning Essentials, which provides templates for Microsoft Office. In addition, the Reference Library was discontinued, absorbed into a newer, more comprehensive Premium package.
Encarta ' s user interface was shared with Microsoft Student, and was streamlined to reduce clutter with only a Search box which returned relevant results; however it became no longer possible to simply browse all the encyclopedia articles alphabetically.
The dynamic maps were generated with the same engine that powered Microsoft MapPoint software. The map was a virtual globe that one could freely rotate and magnify to any location down to major streets for big cities. The globe had multiple surfaces displaying political boundaries, physical landmarks, historical maps and statistical information.
One could selectively display statistical values on the globe surface or in a tabular form, different sized cities, various geological or man-made features and reference lines in a map. The maps contained hyperlinks to related articles 'Map Trek' and also supported a 'Dynamic Sensor' that provides the latitude, longitude, place name, population and local time for any point on the globe.
Encarta also generated a visible-light moon atlas with names of major craters and hyperlinks. However, it did not include a planetarium, but instead had a small interactive constellation-only map.
In addition to database generated maps, many other illustrative maps in Encarta 'Historical Maps' were drawn by artists. Some more advanced maps were interactive: for example, the large African map for Africana could display information such as political boundaries or the distribution of African flora.
There was some controversy over the decision, since the dictionary lacks the other books provided in 'Bookshelf' which many found to be a useful reference, such as Columbia Dictionary of Quotations replaced with a quotations section in Encarta that links to relevant articles and people and an Internet Directory although many of the sites listed in offline directories no longer exist.
Before the emergence of the World Wide Web for information browsing, Microsoft recognized the importance of having an engine that supported a multimediamarkup language, full text search, and extensibility using software objects. The hypertext display, hyperlinking and search software was created by a team of CD-ROM Division developers in the late s who designed it as a generalized engine for uses as diverse as interactive help, document management systems and as ambitious as a multimedia encyclopedia.
Encarta was able to use various Microsoft technologies because it was extensible with software components for displaying unique types of multimedia information. For example, a snap in map engine is adapted from its MapPoint software.
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