ISO 5964 Degrees of Equivalance for Multilingual Thesauri as Used by the IMS Vocabulary Definition Exchange Specification http://www.imsglobal.org/vocabularies/iso5964_equivalences.xml exact exact equivalence The target language contains a term that is a) identical in meaning and scope to the term in the source language; b) capable of functioning as a preferred term in the target language. inexact inexact equivalence A term in the target language expresses the same general concept as the source language term, although the meanings of the terms are not precisely identical. partial partial equivalence The term in the source language cannot be matched by an exactly equivalent term in the target language, but a near translation can be achieved by selecting a term with a slightly broader or narrower meaning. singleToMultiple single-to-multiple equivalence The term in the source language cannot be matched by an exactly equivalent term in the target language, but the concept to which the source language term refers can be expressed by a combination of two or more existing preferred terms in the target language. nonExact non-equivalence The target language does not contain a term that corresponds in meaning, either partially or inexactly, to the source language term. LOMv1.0 IsBasedOn CEN/ISSS WS/LT Learning Technologies Workshop CWA: "Vocabularies repository". LOMv1.0 IsBasedOn ISO 5964:1985 - Guidelines for the establishment and development of multilingual thesauri