About Searching Termbases

You can search for terms in a single termbase or multiple termbases.

Search Type

When to Use

Normal Search

Finds a specific term or terms beginning with a particular character or series of characters.

Excluded from this type of search are termbase entries that have no term for the selected source language.

Full Text Search

Searches on all text fields in all termbase entries in all languages. If the value is present anywhere in an entry, the first term in the entry is displayed as a search result.

Multimedia fields are not searched.

Fuzzy Search

Finds terms that are identical or similar to the search value.

The results are sorted with best matches shown at the top of the results list.

 

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The search value must contain at least three characters.

You cannot use wildcard characters..

 

Termbase entries that have no term for the selected source language are not included.

Duplicate Term

Searches for  identical terms for the same language.

This search is performed on the default termbase only.

Ad-hoc Entries

Searches for termbase entries that were added to SDL MultiTerm from other applications.

 These entries are often incomplete.

Related Topics

Searching Termbases

About Filters

Searching Multiple Termbases

Searching for Duplicate Terms

Searching for Ad Hoc Entries

Set the Maximum Search Results Limit

Changing Hitlist Display Settings

Log Missing Terms