InfoAtoms is a browser plugin that allows you to easily research words or expressions that you find in the text of a webpage. This is done by highlighting with the mouse cursor the text you’re interested in. After this action, a small icon appears on top of that text. When it is clicked, a popup box is displayed. Here, you find three tabs: Research, Translate and Thesaurus. In the first tab, the utility populates the popup box with information found on Wikipedia (usually definitions/explanations for the word or expression). Concomitantly, it also populates the other half of the box with search results from Bing.
In the translation tab, you can translate to and from a large number of languages. The translations of long phrases are usually far from perfect.
The thesaurus often offers comprehensive information, nicely color-coded and formatted, to make it easier to read, but sometimes it fails to show any results (e.g. it showed no results for the word “enables” and very little information for the word “enable” for which it gave no synonym).
Overall, InfoAtoms is a nice and useful addition for your browser, especially if you’re one of those people that frequently search explanations for certain words or expressions in Wikipedia or by using the “define:” prefix in Google.
It can find translations to a term including several examples for context usage
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