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mots porteurs d'informations

English translation: data words

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French term or phrase:mots porteurs d'informations
English translation:data words
Entered by: Martin Cassell

21:51 Jun 7, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers: Hardware
French term or phrase: mots porteurs d'informations
Context is as follows:

'Une memoire vive (RAM) avec une espace augmenté de 20% dédié au programme d'application et une espace augmenté de 20% dédié aux mots porteurs d'informations'

Any suggestion?
Ker
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:55
data(-bearing) words / information words
Explanation:
area set aside for data words as opposed to application code. make sense in the context of dedicated or embedded systems such as you describe, where fixed areas of RAM are often allocated to these two uses. "data words" or "information words" would be fairly idiomatic for this field; "data-bearing words" would be more literal.

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Note added at 39 mins (2007-06-07 22:31:02 GMT)
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dedicated/embedded systems sometimes talk of words rather than bytes -- depends on the memory and data bus architectures they use, but it still just means units of memory.
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Martin Cassell
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3data(-bearing) words / information words
Martin Cassell
4 +1meaningful words or keywords
Drmanu49


Discussion entries: 2





  

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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
meaningful words or keywords


Explanation:
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Drmanu49
France
Local time: 21:55
Meets criteria
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dominic D: I would say keyword is closest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword_(computer_programming)
13 hrs
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37 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
data(-bearing) words / information words


Explanation:
area set aside for data words as opposed to application code. make sense in the context of dedicated or embedded systems such as you describe, where fixed areas of RAM are often allocated to these two uses. "data words" or "information words" would be fairly idiomatic for this field; "data-bearing words" would be more literal.

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Note added at 39 mins (2007-06-07 22:31:02 GMT)
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dedicated/embedded systems sometimes talk of words rather than bytes -- depends on the memory and data bus architectures they use, but it still just means units of memory.

Martin Cassell
United Kingdom
Local time: 20:55
Meets criteria
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jennifer Levey: data-words (as distinct from program code)
9 mins
  -> thanks, mm
agree  writeaway
54 mins
agree  Silvia Brandon-Pérez
5 hrs
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