Research
A list of specialized terms and definitions, typically placed at the end of a document for readers unfamiliar with the jargon.
Merriam-Webster: “a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings”. Through Middle English glosarie from Medieval Latin glōssārium, built on glōssa, a gloss. First recorded in the fourteenth century. The first half of the definition is the older one: a glossary began as a collection of the notes readers wrote beside difficult words, before it became a list at the back of a book.
Merriam-Webster is cited as the dictionary of record: where an entry defines a word rather than a position, a dictionary is the primary source for it. How the term is used in research writing, above, is this lexicon’s own reading.
From the AJG lexicon archive (July 2026).
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