Description / Abstract:
PREFACE TO THE 2ND EDITION
Although this dictionary is concerned primarily with the
terminology of contemporary aerospace technology, words that are
used in other scientific fields, such as computing, astronomy, and
geophysics, have also been included. This dictionary should thus
prove useful to students and teachers of aerospace engineering,
scientists, technologists, and technicians in research and
industry.
In such a fast-moving technology as aerospace engineering, new
terms are created and others become redundant almost weekly. We
have made every effort to give more space to the emerging
technologies and to delete the more obsolete terms.
While this dictionary contains over 20,000 terms and
definitions, size alone is a poor criterion of merit. A work of
reference must stand or fall by its accuracy and authority. The
authority and accuracy of this work rests on the decades of
experience of SAE engineers who created the SAE standards and the
generous contributions from the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA).