A method and apparatus provide definition information to a reader during reading of a text within a defined field of technology or literature. This can be done, for example, by:a) a user accesses a text in memory and displays at least a portion of the text on a display;b) the user identifying a specific word in the text for which further information is sought;c) the user communication to a processor that further information is sought on that specific word;d) the processor accessing a system database (internal or external to the system, single sources or multiple sources) having information relating to the defined field of technology or literature;e) the database responding to the accessing seeking further information comprising that specific word by providing file content from within the database containing that specific word,f) file content is provided containing uses of that specific word in a format of that specific word in combination with all single preceding word and each single subsequent word combinations of that specific word;g) the provided word content being in the form of a definition data structure that is immediately readable or can be opened by the reader.展开▼