scope:

This International Standard is intended to facilitate international communication in information processing. It presents in two languages, terms and definitions of selected concepts relevant to the field of information processing and identifies relationships between the entries. In order to facilitate their translation in other languages, the definitions are drafted so as to avoid, as far as possible, any peculiarity attached to a language. This part of ISO 2382 (which will comprise some twenty-six parts) defines processing and arithmetic units and also registers and convertors.