| French | English |
| caractère réservé | reserved character (A keyboard character that has a special meaning to a program and, as a result, normally cannot be used in assigning names to files, documents, and other user-generated tools, such as macros. Characters commonly reserved for special uses include the asterisk (*), forward slash (/), backslash (\), question mark (?), and vertical bar (|)) |
| domaine réservé | reserved domain (A domain that cannot be associated with a Windows Live ID) |
| espace réservé | placeholder (A symbolic value used in place of a real value that is unknown or unavailable at the current time, or that is not displayed for security reasons) |
| espace réservé au texte | text placeholder (A symbolic value used instead of a real value which in this case is text) |
| espace réservé de masque | mask placeholder (A character used in a masked control when there is no user input to display) |
| espace réservé pour l'image | picture placeholder (A rectangle that represents an imported graphic in your document. You can increase scrolling speed by temporarily replacing graphics with picture placeholders) |
| mot réservé | reserved word (A word that has special meaning to a program or in a programming language and can be used only in certain predefined circumstances; it cannot be used in naming documents, files, labels, variables, or user-generated tools such as macros) |
| période de réserve | reserve time (A limited amount of usage time provided after all purchased time has expired or been expended. If the user does not add or download more usage time within this remaining amount of time, they will lose access to the computer) |
| retenue d'impôt de réserve | backup withholding (An IRS tax rule in the United States that requires notified payers to withhold a set percentage from payments made to payees who cannot be identified due to missing or incorrect taxpayer identification numbers on tax forms) |
| réserve de ressources de l'ordinateur hôte | host reserve (A resource that is set aside on the physical host computer for the use of the host operating system) |
| réserve non paginée | nonpaged pool (Operating system memory that is never paged to disk) |
| réserve paginée | paged pool (The system-allocated virtual memory that has been charged to a process and that can be paged. Paging is the moving of infrequently used parts of a program's working memory from random access memory (RAM) to another storage medium, usually the hard disk) |
| réserve SCSI | SCSI reserve (The process that occurs when the cluster node that owned the quorum resource fails or is unavailable, and the remaining nodes determine which node will take ownership) |
| temps d'utilisation de la période de réserve | borrowed usage time (A limited amount of usage time provided after all purchased time has been expended. If the user does not add or download more usage time within this remaining amount of time, they will lose access to the computer) |
| texte de l'espace réservé | placeholder text (Text or some other element used in an application as an indicator that the user should enter in his or her own text) |
| Tous droits réservés. | All rights reserved. (A statement indicating that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works; that is, they have not waived any such right) |
| unité réservée | allotment (A portion or unit of something that has been reserved for a particular use) |
