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Why use TERMIUM??

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  • 100 000 modifications per year (record creation, deletion of outdated data and expansion of existing records).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!


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Last Updated: 2006-06-20