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  • noun rare A publication that indexes and compares a number of works in some field.

Etymologies

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Coined as the name of an Encyclopaedia Britannica publication compiled by Mortimer Adler, A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas (1952).

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  • I think this question should be changed to reflect new digital storage media...how about "one iPod playlist" for the desert islance? or one "The Great Ideas" collection burned onto a flash drive, with searchable syntopicon?

    Book Meme 2 2006

  • I think this question should be changed to reflect new digital storage media...how about "one iPod playlist" for the desert islance? or one "The Great Ideas" collection burned onto a flash drive, with searchable syntopicon?

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • To build the bibliography the book recommends using a syntopicon. This is a book containing a categorization of existing literature and helps you bootstrap your search for the correct bibliography.

    Want to be great? Know a lot 2022

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