Strategy: Wikilook for jargon busting

4 Keywords: Jargon, Complex Vocabulary, Dictionary, Wikilook

wikilook for gigaflops"This is an ideal jargon buster! You just hold down the shift key and move over the word - wikilook will then give you a definition from wikipedia. It is one of those things that is so simple but fantastic! It also gives you parts of speech and a standard dictionary definition."

In the picture shown the article was about Intel processors and wikilook provided an explanation for gigaflops leading to the wikipedia page on flops. In this case FLoating point Operations Per Second!

 

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"I find the jargon on many websites can be incomprehensible!"

- Teresa

Tip

Google toolbar dictionary is easy to use for complex words and there are many different types of dictionary buttons available. The downside is that they lead you away from the page you are on whereas wikilook for Friefox provides the definition and lets you continue reading.

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