This eighth edition of the PIARC Technical Dictionary of Road Terms is an extract, taken in May 2007, from the multilingual terminology database made available to the worldwide highways community on the http://termino.piarc.org website. This database is constantly updated by PIARC Technical Committee on Terminology and Translation Assistance using contributions from all of the PIARC's committees and technical working groups. The extract here comprises 1,684 terms expressed in five languages (in the following order: English, French, German, Spanish and Portuguese). The languages which act as a reference are the technical English used in the United Kingdom and the French used in France. The synonyms used in other English-speaking countries (United States, Canada) or French-speaking countries (Belgium, Canada, Switzerland) are also given. Terms recommended by the International Standards Organisation (ISO) or the technical committees of the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) are included in this dictionary. However,due to restrictions on space, neither the national or international origin, nor illustrations nor the grammatical attributes of the terms are included in this work . The reader will find them on the website. The following are given on each line: the term, its definition (or a reference to the main term related to the concept involved), the term's code and its translation into the four other languages, always set out in the same order. (Author/publisher)
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