Q

Quality assurance (QA)
All those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service will satisfy given requirements for quality.

R

Repetitions
A sentence or phrase that occurs more than once in the source text, but has no corresponding match in the translation memory.

S

Segment
A discreet piece (chunk) of text, such as a phrase, sentence or heading that is stored as a unit in a translation memory together with its translation.

Simultaneous interpretation
The interpreter usually sits in a booth in front of a microphone, listens through headphones to the incoming message in the source language and communicates it over the microphone to whoever is listening in the target language.

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