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Friday, 8th January 2010

Online Database: Finding the Right Term: TERMIUM Plus (Terminological & Linguistic Data Bank)

This free database comes from the Translation Bureau (TB) of Canada. In a nutshell, it helps the user find the "right" word in English, French, or Spanish.

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Why Use It?

+ a trilingual data bank that gives the precise English, French or Spanish equivalent to designate anything from a simple tool or a complex machine, to a disease or plant, association or committee. Almost every field of human endeavour is covered;

+ unilingual data bank that can be used to check the meaning of a specialized term or find the meaning of a term in a leading-edge field;

+ a writing assistance tool that provides access to 14 electronic resources.

What it Contains:

+ 3,900,000 terms and names, with definitions, contexts, examples of usage, observations and phraseological units;

+ specialized and highly specialized terms not found in any standard bilingual data bank;

+ terms organized by subject, ensuring the ultimate in accuracy;

+ extensive and reliable data in nearly all fields;

+ standardized English and French terminology;

+ a wide range of official titles including names of national and international organizations, statutes and programs, as well as abbreviations, acronyms, initialisms, geographical names, etc.;

+ records resulting from terminologists' participation in national and international standardization committees bank updated by 40 terminologists whose main job is to keep it current with the latest information

+ 50 000 modifications per year (record creation, deletion of outdated data and expansion of existing records).

Access TERMIUM Plus and Related Info

Direct to the Database

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