Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bitext

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bi-text
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.

Example Sentences

"Another way of putting it is to say that a bi-text is not two texts but a single text in two dimensions, each of which is a language."
"Once a bitext is available, it can be converted into a traditional translation memory, which usually involves eliminating duplicate translation units, some degree of normalization of the segments, and combining unordered sets of translation units from a number of source and target texts into an indexed database."

Etymology

From bi- + text, coined by Brian Harris in 1987 as bi-text.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: bi

Inflected Forms

bitexts (plural) bi-text (alternative)

Synonyms

parallel text

Questions

What does bitext mean?: A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.
Where does bitext come from?: From bi- + text, coined by Brian Harris in 1987 as bi-text.

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