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Term bank
Term banks are resources that assist in research on terms used in specialised language, and are particularly useful for example for specialised or technical translation and technical writing. Usually bi- or multilingual, term banks are collections of term records, i.e. highly structured entries in databases that store data about concepts that are important in specialised fields (e.g. terms, their equivalents in other languages, definitions, contexts, sources, and observations). This concept-based structure and specialised orientation differentiates term banks from most electronic dictionaries, which are generally organised by lexical item. Two of the best-known Canadian term banks are TERMIUM® and the Grand dictionnaire terminologique (GDT). A well-known European term bank is IATE (Inter-Active Terminology for Europe), formerly known as Eurodicautom.
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