Digital Assistants

One can find an electronic dictionary on many different devices and in many places on the Internet. Some portable, battery-operated devices are made exclusively to serve as electronic dictionaries. Many phones and personal digital assistants, or PDAs, also contain integrated electronic dictionaries that can be used for checking spelling or for reference purposes. A portable electronic dictionary tends to be more convenient than a paper dictionary, as it contains many more words in a much smaller space. Also, it tends to be much faster to search an electronic dictionary than to search a paper dictionary; one only needs to type in the desired word to see it and all of the information associated with it.