Question

Maria is reading an online text that describes an engineering process. She comes across the term column. She believes she knows the term’s meaning but wants to verify it. Where should she look to verify its meaning?

Answer 1

Answer:

She should look it up in the Dictionary of Technical Terms

Explanation:

As the word "column" can have various meanings, depending on the field where the word will be used, one should always check if the meaning he thinks he knows is the correct one.

In typography, a word column has a completely different meaning than in the engineering: a vertical division of a page or text.