French term
normalisation
| 4 +6 | standardization |
Adam Lankamer
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| 4 | standards approval |
Tony M
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PRO (1): Adam Lankamer
Non-PRO (2): writeaway, Julie Barber
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Proposed translations
Poland
Financial, Legal and Patent Translation
Native in: Polish 
Works in: English to Polish, Polish to English, French to English, and 2 more.
standardization
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Mario Calvagna
: this is what I thought as well
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writeaway
: backed by all standard Fr-En dictionaries
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Victoria Porter-Burns
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Euqinimod (X)
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Tony M
: Sorry to fly in the face of such unanimity, but in the highly specialized world of standards, there is a nuance of meaning that is in danger of being lost in translation.
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sktrans
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sdavidson
3 days 1 hr
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standards approval
'standardization' really only applies in the sense of 'making all products (etc.) standard' — but in the specific sense of 'application des normes', this term is to be deprecated, and I woulld suggest re-phrasing so as to make the meaning unambiguous.
Products that 'comply with a certain standard' are not necessarily 'standardized products — there is a small but important nuance of meaning.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-02-26 18:44:06 GMT)
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Of course, the actual phrase used will depend on seeing the whole context, which you haven't given us.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2008-02-26 19:17:19 GMT)
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'standrads compliance' might be another way to phrase it, but again, it is really vital to see the sentence in which it is being used in order to come up with the optimum translation solution.
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writeaway
: sorry TM, it's not the same thing. please see official title of European Committee here: http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/homepage.htm
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But it's the CEN site that is "not the same thing" — the contexts are slightly different, and CEN is about the introduction of standards; it's arguable that their translation is not ideal...
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