Chinese-English Technical Terms
Over 3 million entries
Over 60 domains, mostly science and technology
Constantly expanded and proofread
Overview
The Chinese-English Database of Technical Terms (CETERM) is a comprehensive database of over 2.9 million entries covering a broad spectrum of about 60 fields in the major domains of science and technology, ideally suited for MT and NLP applications.
CETERM is available either as a full package or as domain-specific modules, such as IT, chemistry, and medicine. Available also are the English-Chinese modules, so that the total number of entries is nearly six million entries. If you require a specific subdomain, please contact us for samples.
Principal Domains
Computer
170,000 entries
Civil Engineering
45,000 entries
Chemical
74,000 entries
Mechanical Engineering
76,000 entries
Chemical
74,000 entries
Biology
57,000 entries
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No. | English | Chinese | Entries | Chinese Unique |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Accounting | 会计学 | 3,462 | 3,355 |
2 | Administration | 行政学 | 1,869 | 1,865 |
3 | Aerospace | 航空航天 | 134,538 | 117,526 |
4 | Agriculture | 农业学 | 19,487 | 17,139 |
5 | Animal Science | 畜牧学 | 11,004 | 10,619 |
6 | Astronomy | 天文学 | 15,292 | 14,254 |
7 | Automobile | 汽车 | 4,705 | 4,542 |
8 | Biology | 生物学 | 56,685 | 47,222 |
9 | Biotechnology | 生化学 | 21,825 | 18,797 |
10 | Chemical Engineering | 化工 | 172,700 | 149,585 |
Domain | Chinese | Pinyin | English |
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economics & finance | 一级风险 | yī jí fēng xiǎn | primary risk |
economics & finance | 一组定价 | yī zǔ dìng jià | Block booking |
economics & finance | 一致决 | yī zhì jué | Unanimity |
economics & finance | 一致性 | yī zhì xìng | Coherence |
economics & finance | 一致性 | yī zhì xìng | Consistency |
economics & finance | 一致性 | yī zhì xìng | uniformity |
economics & finance | 一致性估计量 | yī zhì xìng gū jì liàng | Consistent estimator |
economics & finance | 一致收敛 | yī zhì shōu liǎn | Uniform convergence |
economics & finance | 一致最有效检定 | yī zhì zuì yǒu xiào jiǎn dìng | Uniformly most powerful test |
economics & finance | 一致的信念 | yī zhì de xìn niàn | Consistent belief |
Chinese | Pinyin | English |
---|---|---|
A类纤维 | A lèi xiān wéi | A fibers |
A滤光镜 | A lǜ guāng jìng | A filter |
阻力 | zǔ lì | a fronte vis |
一次机能试验 | yī cì jī néng shì yàn | a function test |
胃管 | wèi guǎn | a gastric tube |
A组染色体 | A zǔ rǎn sè tǐ | A group chromosome |
喉科指掌 | hóu kē zhǐ zhǎng | A Guidebook of Laryngology |
血红蛋白A | xuè hóng dàn bái A | A hemoglobin |
表土层 | biǎo tǔ céng | a horizone |
婴童百问 | yīng tóng bǎi wèn | A Hundred Questions About Infants and Children |
Practical Applications
CETERM has been used by some of the world’s leading IT companies for a wide variety of applications and software products, such as:
Machine translation
Greatly enhanced translation quality
Morphological analysis
Casio’s EX-word series and Sharp’s Brain series
Mobile dictionary apps
Such as our own apps for Android and iOS
Natural language processing tools
Like morphological analyzers and tokenizers
Reference Documents
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