| English | French |
| delimited flat file | fichier plat délimité (A data file that contains one or more records separated by a record delimiter. Each delimited record contains one or more fields separated by a common field delimiter) |
| flat appearance | apparence à deux dimensions (The recommended visual display of a control when it is nested inside another control or scrollable region) |
| flat cap | extrémité plate (For paths that contain unconnected ends, the end of the stroke that is left as a flat edge) |
| flat file | fichier plat (A file consisting of records of a single record type in which there is no embedded structure information that governs relationships between records) |
| flat file | fichier plat (A file consisting of records of a single record type in which there is no embedded structure information that governs relationships between records) |
| flat file format | format de fichier plat (An image file format in which individual objects cannot be edited. Files stored in JPEG, GIF, and BMP formats are all flat files. The PhotoDraw MIX file format is not a flat file format) |
| flat-file logging | journalisation de fichiers plats (The process of creating an event log that is written to a UTF-8 formatted text file) |
| flat list | liste plate (A result set in which any member hierarchies are ignored and all members are presented as equal. Regardless of how the members are presented however, hierarchical information is always maintained in the member metadata) |
| flat namespace | espace de noms plat (A namespace that is unstructured and cannot be partitioned, such as the network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) namespace. In a flat namespace, every object must have a unique name) |
| positional flat file | fichier plat positionnel (A type of file format used to represent business documents in which the records and fields have a fixed length, eliminating the need for delimiters) |
