The following is a glossary of terms developed during work on quality documents and document management.
| FR | EN |
| accéder à | display, use, access |
| acteurs | workflow signatories, recipients, people, signatory |
| agrément | certification |
| approbation | approval |
| arborescence | tree structure |
| avenant | contract addendum |
| bureau d’etudes | product engineering department |
| carte d’identité de processus | process identification file |
| certificat de type | type certificate |
| classement | classification |
| classification | classification |
| coche verte | tick mark |
| codification | naming and numbering scheme |
| codifier | number a document |
| confirmer la lecture | read and validate |
| conformité | compliance |
| consultation | consultation |
| contrôle | checking, monitoring |
| créateur | creator |
| cycle de signature | signature cycle |
| cycle de validation | signature cycle |
| demande d’évolution | update request |
| demande de révision | revision request |
| dérogation | exemption |
| diffusion pour application | distribution for application |
| domaine | scope |
| donneur d’ordre | contractor |
| dossier de préparation | preparatory File |
| enregistrements | records |
| entité d’organisation | business unit |
| étalonnage | calibration |
| étape | stage |
| évolution | update |
| fiche | file |
| fiche d’identité | document properties |
| flux | data flow |
| formulaire | form |
| habilitation | clearance |
| indice | version number |
| lecture | reading or consultation |
| liasses | collections |
| lifecycle | life-cycle |
| maîtrise | management |
| manuel | manual |
| manuel de management | management handbook |
| mise à jour | update |
| modalité | method |
| modification | update |
| mode opératoire | operating mode |
| motif | reason |
| nomenclature | bill of material |
| opération | action |
| page de garde | document cover page |
| permet de visualiser | display |
| plan de classement | category structure |
| planches | subsets |
| pôle | unit |
| pour application | for application |
| qualification | accreditation |
| rationaliser | rationalise |
| rédacteur | author |
| rédaction | authoring |
| rédiger | create (a document) |
| référence du document | classification reference |
| référentiels | framework |
| référencement | indexing |
| révision | revision |
| rubrique “à modifier” | update section |
| service ou département | department |
| signataires | signatories |
| trame | Main process or template |
| validation | approval or validation |
| valider | validate or confirm |
| valider la lecture | validate |
| vérificateur | verifier |
| vérifier | verify |
| workflow | work-flow or life-cycle |
| workflow de signature | signature work-flow |