Technical terms translation

Antonio_Oliveira
Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:47:33 +0000
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There are some technical terms, not particular to any field, that upon translation come out as nonsensical due to that term not being used in the translated version.

I’ll give one example, but I’ve come across others. Image registration comes out as “transformation between two images for them to be spatially correspondent“, whereas “registo de imagens“ is used to register an image for copyright purposes in Portuguese.

Do I keep the original term, or do I adapt it to where the translation isn’t direct, but makes the point come across? Which in this case would be more on the likes of “alinhamento de imagens“, or image alignment.

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