Why use TERMIUM Plus^®?

Because it is:

• 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;
• a 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.

For its content:

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• 50 000 modifications per year (record creation, deletion of outdated data and expansion of existing records).

For its features:

• one of the largest linguistic data banks in the world;
• a product of over 30 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, French or 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 Plus^®!

THE definitive writing and editing tool!