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Translators' Tools

yourDictionary.com - Free Online English Dictionary
Comprehensive directory of technical dictionaries, glossaries, thesauri, and language courses. Includes a funny feature: write your name in hieroglyphs, Baylonian, runes.

SYSTRAN Language Translation Technology
Includes an online machine translation tool capable of providing a (very) rough translation of e.g. a website. Currently, 32 language pairs are supported, including English to Dutch, English to French, Dutch to English, and French to English.

Online Conversion - Convert just about anything to anything else
Indispensable unit conversion site for the serious technical translator. Over 5,000 units are supported: length and distance, temperature, speed, volume, weight/mass, computer units, date/time, cooking volume conversions (how much is a teaspoon?), angles, area, power, energy, density, force, pressure, astronomical units, clothing sizes, light, torque, viscosity, frequency, flow rate, and acceleration. Also check out the miscellaneous conversions/calculators section.

Acronym Finder: Find out what over 1,000,000 acronyms & abbreviations stand for
Searchable database of over 1,000,000 acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms in many categories, including safety & health, banking & finance, electronics, chemistry, sports, etc. Includes a wildcard function and a reverse lookup function allowing you to find acronyms based on their definition. You can also submit your own company-specific acronyms for inclusion in the database.

UT Library Online
University of Texas Library. Great source of miscellaneous information for technical translators, including country and city maps, general bilingual dictionaries, world news papers, a very complete list of online journals, world statistics and demographics, a patent search function,... Well worth a visit.

MSDS and S&H related

MSDS Solutions - Advanced search function for material safety data sheets
Subscription based MSDS search service. Currently offers over 1,500,000 safety sheets. The site interface is bilingual English and French.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Website of the US Department of Labor, Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA). Mandatory literature for the S&H translator and professional. Includes information on OHS State programs. Also of particular interest to the S&H professional is the Newsroom section with up to date information on companies cited or fined following an OHSA investigatio... learn from the experience of others!

MSDS translation
Material Safety Data Sheets in any language.

CDMS Label / Msds Information
Directory of product labels and MSDSs, listed by manufacturer, but searchable by product/brand name. All deliverables are freely available in PDF format.