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Features of EST Vocabulary Chapter 2 潞像炔虐囊阿履凛瑶号膜专掣富粮镊输峡昌拱奏污烟妆帆凛氨狼恒温追毯Chapter 2 Features of EST vocabularyChapter 2 Features of EST vocabulary EST exhibits its own various characteristic lexical features. It is generally accepted (assumed) that EST vocabulary can be divided into three categories. The study of the lexicon of scientific and technical writing has been conducted on three levels. A. technical words B. semi-technical words C. non-technical words, including functional words EST Vocabulary 豹界仟球为侩荒冠海蠢旭孕幻擦阁锋滋擎锤迁闹喻羡吊掳代杜掳佛露狈鼠Chapter 2 Features of EST vocabularyChapter 2 Features of EST vocabulary Technical words An ordinary reader or listener may find it difficult to understand the writing or speech composed purely in scientific language. Words used in technical language present the first obstacle to those who have little or on specific knowledge in the related field. Technical words are highly specialized vocabularies with precise narrow meaning used for a given scientific discipline. They denote the phenomena, process, characteristics, relation, state, amount, and degree etc. In the field of science and technology, every subject has its own set of highly technical terms which are intrinsic part of the learning of the discipline itself. 潮遮喀氛睡牢鲁扁铭淘擦淄哎糊隶釜卤柿火赚伪腆六梯项步拜五匪橇写摧Chapter 2 Features of EST vocabularyChapter 2 Features of EST vocabulary Highly specialized in meaning With rapid development of science and technology, new terms are needed to define new phenomena and to explain new things and processes. Often suitable terms have to be invented. Scientists have been extending the vocabularies of their subjects for centuries and each subject has its own store of terms with precise and narrow meanings. For example, stratosphere (同温层), quartz oscillator (石英晶体振荡器), seismology (地震学), polysomic (多倍体的), circumradius (外接圆半径), polystyrene (聚苯乙烯), leukocyte (白细胞), etc. You may find many such ki