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This part of ISO 10241 specifies requirements for the preparation, drafting and structuring of terminological entries in standards, exemplified by terminological entries in ISO and IEC documents. It is based on the principles and methods given in ISO 704 and provides rules for both monolingual and multilingual terminological entries in standards and their indexes. The requirements of this part of ISO 10241 also apply to standardized symbols, which can be language independent or internationally harmonized. The principles and rules for the work on the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) have also been taken into account. NOTE 1 Annex I of the IEC Supplement to the ISO/IEC Directives[1] for the work on the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) is based on the standards prepared by ISO/TC 37. The standardization of principles and methods for terminological data primarily referring to terms is under the responsibility of ISO/TC 37 for ISO and many international standards developing organizations (SDO). Terminological data also covers letters, numerals, punctuation marks and letter symbols (insofar as they are abbreviated forms of the full form of a term) as well as the respective fonts, typeface or style conventions to render them. It includes also other designations, such as symbols for quantities and units as well as graphical symbols. As some of the above-mentioned kinds of designations are under the responsibility of different Committees in ISO and IEC, the international standards of the respective committees are duly respected. This part of ISO 10241 is intended for use by standardizing bodies so that efficient and uniform methods are applied to the preparation, drafting and structuring of terminological entries, regardless of language and script. For implementing this part of ISO 10241, individual recommendations may need to be adapted or additional provisions may need to be added to respond to domain- or language-specific conventions. This part of ISO 10241 is applicable to all standards that contain terminological entries. It does not deal with the administrative procedures required by standardizing bodies for the preparation of terminology standards. NOTE 2 Administrative procedures for the preparation of terminology standards are specific to the standardizing body. For example, in ISO and IEC these rules are provided in the ISO/IEC Directives[2]. Since presentation and layout rules by nature are very much tied to the script and to the publishing rules of the standardizing body, they are dealt with only on an abstract level in this part of ISO 10241. Examples and rules for the current presentation and layout in ISO documents are provided for information in Annex A. NOTE 3 The terminological entries in Clause 3 "Terms and definitions" are formatted according to the current rules for the presentation of ISO terminology standards.