This standard BS ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993 Information technology. Vocabulary is classified in these ICS categories:
01.040.35 Information technology (Vocabularies)
35.020 Information technology (IT) in general
This part of ISO/IEC 2382 is intended to facilitate international communication in information technology. It presents, in two languages, terms and definitions of selected concepts relevant to the field of information technology and identifies relationships among the entries.
In order to facilitate their translation into other languages, the definitions are drafted so as to avoid, as far as possible, any peculiarity attached to a language.
This part of ISO/IEC 2382 deals with the most important concepts on which are based the further specialized sections in various technical fields, as well as the essential terms which should be used by nonspecialist users in communication with specialists in information processing.