Dictionary of terms

Amplitude is behavioural analytics platform created by Amplitude Analytics, Inc. in 2012.

Android is one of mobile operating systems for mobile devices, primarily designed for touchscreen devices such as smartphones and tablets.

Android Studio, an official Integrated Development Environment for Android mobile OS development.

Angular is a TypeScript-based open-source platform for building mobile and desktop web applications.

API stands for Application Programming Interface. API enables applications to exchange data with each other.

App monetization is a process of turning investment into revenue.

The goal of app store optimization is to increase the number of people who download your app.

Appium is an open-source framework for mobile application testing automation.

Bitrise.io is a Continuous Integration platform oriented mainly at mobile apps and their developers.

CAT Tool stands for Computer-aided Translation Tool and is used to increase translation process productivity.

CI can stand for Continuous Integration or Continuous Improvement. What is the difference?

Connected Projects is the name of a Localazy feature allowing users to share translations across multiple projects.

Continuous Improvement is a never-ending, repetitive process of learning and improvement.

Continuous Integration

Cordova is an open-source mobile application development framework. It was previously known as both Nitobi and PhoneGap. While being open-sourced, it is managed by Adobe.

DeepL Translator is a neural machine translation engine that leverages neural networks to convert text from one language to another. 

Externalized string enables app developers to maintain translations.

fastlane is an open source platform aimed at simplifying Android and iOS deployment

Figma is popular tool to build prototypes of digital products, made for design collaboration.

Google Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Firebase, Inc. in 2011, then acquired by Google in 2014. Nowadays, it does include 18 products with nearly 2 million users.

Flutter is SDK made by Google for building natively compiled applications for mobile, web and desktop from a single codebase.

Framework7 is a tool that can both be used for prototyping but also it can be used for building app development for mobile, desktop, and the web.

GILT is an acronym for Globalization, Internationalization, Localization and Translation.

Globalization is a process of preparing a product for international use.

The Localazy Glossary is an essential tool for ensuring high-quality translations and providing context for translators.

Gettext is a library that was built to minimize the work of i18n and l10n. It works by extracting the strings directly from the source files and generating a template file.

Google Play is an online store where Android users can download apps, games, and other media.

Gradle is an open-source build automation tool that is designed to be flexible enough to build almost any type of software.

GTK, also known as GIMP ToolKit is an open-source toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

Human-Assisted Machine Translation, i.e., MT plus post-editing and/ or pre-editing;

i18next is one of the top open-source internationalization frameworks written in and for JavaScript.

ICU stands for International Components for Unicode

Integrated Development Kit help developers to perform all they need at one place.

IntelliJ IDEA by JetBrains is an integrated development environment (IDE) written in Java for developing computer software.

Internationalisation is a process of making your software localisable.

InTM is a Localazy internal translation memory engine covering translation memory needs within a given translation project.

Ionic is an open-source software development kit for mobile operating systems. It was originally built on top of Angular but now it allows developers to use one of several pre-existing web components such as React.

iOS is a mobile devices operating system developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for Apple devices.

Java is an object-oriented programming language used to create applications for various platforms.

JavaScript is a scripting language that allows developers to create interactive web interfaces.

jQuery.i18n, sometimes referred to as $i18n, is a jQuery internationalization plugin to support multilingual development for your website or web app.

JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation and it's a widely used File Format.

Kotlin is an open-source statically typed programming language that targets the JVM, Android, JavaScript, and Native.

L10n is an abbreviation of Localization.

Laravel is an open-source PHP framework for web application development.

Localization is a process of preparing a product for a particular market.

LSP stands for Language Service Provider.

This branch of artificial intelligence uses algorithms to look for patterns and make predictions, deciding things like what recommendations to show you.

Machine Translation is a process of translation using computational linguistics.

Machine-Assisted Human Translation, i.e., human uses computer for help, as desired;

MTPE stands for Machine Translation Post-Editing.

Nette is a popular framework for PHP web development.

NodeJS is a run-time JavaScript enviroment for server-side use.

Not to be translated term.

Nuxt is described as a meta framework for applications. It is based on several different frameworks and is written in JavaScript.

OCR stands for Optical character recognition. It is the conversion of texts in images into machine-encoded text.

PDCA cycle is a method of continuous improvement in quality assurance.

Placeholder is a special set of characters that represents a variable and is replaced by the actual value programmatically.

PO and POT are text-based file formats commonly used for localization purposes.

Pseudolocalization is a software testing method used for testing software designed for international use.

Python is an interpreted, high-level and general-purpose programming language and is one of the most popular languages.

The quality assurance stage is the process of verifying that a localized product accurately delivers its intended functions to the end-user.

Qt is a cross-platform toolkit for creating applications with a graphical user interface (GUI).

Rails i18n is internationalisation for Ruby. It offers YAML integration.

React is a development kit written in NodeJS. It is used for building frontend components of applications. Notable apps that use React include Facebook and Netflix.

Selenium is a browser automation tool, helping you test your websites and applications using real browsers in real-time.

One of the most popular platforms for online marketing management.

ShareTM is the shared translation memory at Localazy.

Strapi is a fully-customizable, open-source headless CMS written in JavaScript.

Streamlit is an open-source python library that turns data scripts into shareable web apps.

Swift is a programming language that is used for developing applications for Apple operating systems: macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS.

Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) is an XML specification that allows computer-aided translation and localization tools to exchange translation memory data.

Translation is a process of text transformation into another language.

Translation Management System is a software for translation process automation.

Translation Memory is a data storage of translated terms. It helps to cut translation costs and improve translation productivity.

TypeScript is a language based on JavaScript made by Microsoft.

Unity is a multi-platform game development kit. It is written in C# and can be used to make both 2d and 3d games.

Vue.js is an open-source, front-end JavaScript framework for creating web user interfaces.

XLIFF stands for XML Localization Interchange File Format.

YAML is a human-readable data-serialization language, similar to JSON.