Because it is:
- a trilingual dictionary 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;
- a unilingual dictionary 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 fourteen electronic resources.
For its content:
- three million five hundred thousand terms and names, with definitions, contexts, examples of usage, observations and phraseological units;
- specialized and highly specialized terms not found in any standard bilingual dictionary;
- 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;
- 100 000 modifications per year (record creation, deletion of outdated data and expansion of existing records).
For its features:
- one of the largest linguistic data banks in the world;
- a product of over 25 years of research and development (terminology and informatics);
- terminology spanning nearly every field of human knowledge;
- word-combination searches;
- full text searches using key words;
- user-friendly interface: query in English or in French or even in Spanish.
Do you want to:
- obtain the latest terminology in nearly all fields?
- find the equivalent in either official language of an acronym, initialism or abbreviation?
- find an expression using key words?
- improve the clarity and effectiveness of your communications?
- save time?
THINK TERMIUM®!
Winner of the 1996 ATIO Award (Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario).
THE definitive writing and editing tool! |