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Translation Terms and Glossaries

The following terms are used in translation: Engineering terms, Finance terms, Supply Chain terms, Quality terms. To display the full list of terms in each category, simply click on the images below or on one of the above links. More will follow as we port our database to Notion from the previous Translation Terms Database developed in Microsoft Access.

The largest number of terms we have collated (in our new Notion database) are in information systems, engineering, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, and tourism.

Breakdown of terms by domain

Engineering terms

These are Engineering terms developed during a translation of a technical manual on dams, a foundry and several projects on machine tools.  Click here to see the full database.

French to English Engineering terms

Finance terms

Herewith a selection of finance terms developed over several translation projects. Click here or below to see the full database.

French to English finance terms

Supply Chain terms

A supply chain is a network of organizations, people, activities, information, and resources involved in the production, distribution, and delivery of goods or services from supplier to customer. It encompasses the entire process of transforming raw materials into finished products and ensuring their availability to the end consumer.

These are Supply Chain terms. Click here or below to see the full database.

French to English supply chain terms

Quality terms

These are Quality terms. Click here or below to see the full database of terms collated over several translation projects for a large French aerospace contractor.

French to English terms in Quality

Terms database design

The terms database is simple in design. It relates projects terms and customers. A project will have one or more terms, and generally more than one. A project is intended for a customer which can be a direct customer or a translation agency who in turn supplies the translation to their direct customer.

Entity design of translation terms database

Trados term base 

Terms can also be stored in the term base integrated into the Trados CAT tool. Terms can easily be added to the term base during a translation project. 

The term base can be edited later using Multiterm term base editor and converted to and from Excel using the glossary converter tool.

You can also create a custom term base which, instead of using an external system like Notion, allows you to store full definitions, abbreviations, etc which are then available directly during translation.

Translation terms are available within the trados environment by a simple shortcut command, which can display the translations previously stored in the termbase. 

Termbase viewer window in Trados