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THE CENDI SCIENCE TERMINOLOGY LOCATOR |
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A Gateway to Terminology Across U.S. Federal Science Agencies |
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Browse the terminology resources across the U.S. Federal Science Agencies by selecting a topic and clicking the acronym resource link next to the category. | |||
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Topic | Source of Terminology |
Agriculture & Food |
DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Agricultural Facilities & Equipment | DTIC | NALT |
Agricultural Facilities | NALT |
Agricultural Equipment | DTIC | NALT |
Agricultural Wastes | NALT |
Animal Husbandry & Veterinary Science | DTIC | NALT |
Animal Health and Veterinary Medicine | MeSH | NALT |
Animal Husbandry | MeSH | NALT |
Animal Nutrition, Forage, and Feed | NALT |
Animal Products | NALT |
Animal Welfare | MeSH | NALT |
Insect Husbandry | NALT |
Fisheries & Aquaculture | DTIC |
Aquaculture | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Fisheries | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Food Safety | NALT |
Food Science & Technology | |
Food Science | DTIC | NALT |
Food Technology | MeSH | NALT |
Pesticides, Insecticides & Herbicides * | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Fungicides * | NALT |
Herbicides * | MeSH | NALT |
Insecticides * | MeSH | NALT |
Plant Production, Agronomy, Gardening & Horticulture | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Source of Terminology | |
Applied Science & Technologies |
DOE | NALT |
Agricultural Engineering & Technologies | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Aircraft & Flight | DTIC | MeSH | NASA |
Biomedical Technologies * | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Biotechnology * | DTIC | MeSH | NALT | NASA |
Buildings & Construction | DTIC | DTIC | DOE |
Chemical Engineering | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Civil Engineering | DTIC | DOE |
Defense Technologies | DTIC | DOE |
Electronics | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NASA |
Engineering Technologies | DTIC | DOE | NASA |
Industrial & Manufacturing Technologies | DTIC |
Materials * | DTIC | DOE | NALT | NASA |
Nanotechnology | MeSH | NASA |
Ocean Technologies | DTIC | USGS |
Robotics | DTIC | MeSH | NASA |
Space Technologies * | DTIC | NASA |
Transportation Technologies | DTIC | DOE |
Source of Terminology | |
Astronomy & Space |
NASA |
Astronomy | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NASA |
Comets, Asteroids, and Meteors | DTIC | NASA |
Planets and Planetary Systems | DTIC | MeSH | NASA | USGS |
Sun and the Solar System | DTIC | MeSH | NASA |
Space Exploration & Development | DTIC | NASA |
Manned Space Flights and Missions | DTIC | MeSH | NASA |
Unmanned Space Flights | DTIC | NASA |
Space Technologies * | DTIC | NASA |
Source of Terminology | |
Biology & Nature |
DOE | NALT |
Animals, Plants & other Organisms | DTIC | DOE | NALT | MeSH | USGS |
Biocomplexity * | NBII |
Biological Processes | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Biotechnology * | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Ecology * | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Genetics & Molecular Biology | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Natural Resources | DTIC | MeSH | NALT| USGS |
Pest Control | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Source of Terminology | |
Computers & Communication |
DOE |
Communication | DTIC | MeSH |
Radio and Television | DTIC |
Satellite | DTIC | MeSH |
Wireless | DTIC |
Computer Software | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Computers | DTIC | MeSH |
Computer Hardware | DTIC | MeSH |
Computer Networking | DTIC | MeSH |
Computer Security | DTIC | MeSH |
Source of Terminology | |
Earth & Ocean Sciences |
DOE | USGS | NALT |
Climate, Weather & Meteorology | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | NASA | USGS |
Climate Change * | NALT | USGS |
Upper Atmosphere | NALT |
Weather Forecasting | NALT |
Earthquakes, Floods & other Natural Disasters | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Geology & Land Forms | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Mapping & Cartography | DTIC | DOE | USGS |
Oceans & Oceanography | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Snow, Ice & Permafrost | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Soil | DTIC | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Water & Hydrology | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Source of Terminology | |
Energy & Energy Conservation |
DOE | NALT |
Energy Conservation | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Energy Efficiency | DOE |
Buildings | DOE |
Industry | DOE |
Power | DOE |
Transportation | DOE |
Energy Policy & Studies | DOE |
Energy Use, Supply & Demand | DOE |
Fossil Energy | DOE | MeSH | USGS |
Clean Coal | DOE |
Coal | DOE | MeSH |
Electricity | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Oil and Gas | DTIC | DOE |
Regulation | DOE |
Strategic Petroleum Reserve | DOE |
Nuclear Power | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Renewable Sources | DTIC | DOE |
Bioenergy | DOE |
Geothermal | DOE |
Hydrogen | DOE |
Hydropower | DOE |
Ocean | DOE |
Solar | DOE | MeSH |
Wind | DOE | MeSH |
Source of Terminology | |
Environment & Environmental Quality |
DOE | EPA | NALT |
Air Quality | DTIC | DOE | EPA |
Cleanup | DOE | EPA | MeSH | NALT |
Brownfields | |
Cleanup Technology | DTIC |
Corrective Action | |
Site Assessment | NALT |
Superfund | |
Climate Change * | DTIC | DOE | NALT | USGS |
Ecology * | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Emergencies | DOE | MeSH |
Environmental Safety & Health | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Noise Quality | DTIC | DOE | NASA |
Pesticides, Insecticides & Herbicides * | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Fungicides | NALT |
Herbicides | MeSH | NALT |
Insecticides | MeSH | NALT |
Pollutants/Toxics | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Pollution Prevention | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Radiation | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NASA |
Wastes (Solid or Concentrated) | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Animal Waste | NALT |
Hazardous Waste | MeSH | NALT |
Liquid Waste | |
Medical Waste | MeSH |
Radioactive Waste | DTIC | MeSH |
Risk Assessment | NALT |
Solid Waste | NALT |
Waste Disposal | NALT |
Waste Generation | |
Waste Storage | |
Waste Transportation | |
Waste Treatment | NALT |
Water Quality | DTIC | DOE | NALT | USGS |
Source of Terminology | |
Health & Medicine |
DOE | MeSH |
Alternative Medicine | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Biomedical Technologies * | DTIC | MeSH | NASA |
Diseases & Medical Conditions | DTIC | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Drugs (Prescription and Over the Counter) & Pharmacology | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Drugs | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Pharmacology | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Exercise | MeSH | NALT |
Food, Nutrition, & Metabolism | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Food | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Nutrition | MeSH | NALT |
Metabolism | MeSH | NALT |
Health Care | DTIC | MeSH |
Laboratory & Diagnostic Procedures | DTIC |
Laboratory Procedures | MeSH | NALT |
Diagnostic Procedures | MeSH | NALT |
Medical Devices | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Mental Health & Behavior | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Occupational Health & Safety | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Procedures, Surgery, & other Therapies | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Procedures | MeSH | NALT |
Surgery | MeSH | NALT |
Source of Terminology | |
Natural Resources & Conservation |
DOE | NALT |
Biocomplexity * | NBII |
Ecosystems | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT | NBII | USGS |
Coasts | NALT | USGS |
Coral Reefs | USGS |
Deserts | NALT | USGS |
Estuaries | NALT | USGS |
Freshwater | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Marine | NALT | USGS |
Watersheds | NALT |
Wetlands | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Energy Resources | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Forest Science | DTIC | MeSH | NALT |
Land | DTIC | DOE | NALT | USGS |
Minerals & Mining | DTIC | DOE |
Minerals | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Mining | DOE | MeSH | NALT | USGS |
Source of Terminology | |
Physics, Chemistry & Math |
DOE |
Chemistry & Chemicals | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Analytical Chemistry | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Chemicals | MeSH | NALT |
Inorganic Chemistry | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Materials * | DTIC | DOE | NALT | NASA |
Organic Chemistry | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Photo & Radiation Chemistry | DTIC | DOE | NALT |
Physical Chemistry | DTIC | DOE | MeSH | NALT |
Mathematics | DTIC | DOE | ERIC | MeSH | NALT | NASA |
Physics | DOE | MeSH | NALT | NASA |
Astrophysics | DTIC | DOE |
Condensed Matter | DTIC | DOE |
General Relativity & Quantum Cosmology | DTIC | DOE |
High Energy Physics | DTIC | DOE |
Mathematical Physics | DOE |
Nuclear Physics | DTIC | DOE | MeSH |
Quantum Physics | DTIC | DOE |
Source of Terminology | |
Science Education |
DTIC | ERIC | NALT |
NOTE: asterisk (*) after a heading indicates polyhierarchy, that is, it has more than one occurrence in the taxonomy. |