| English | German |
| delimited flat file | durch Trennzeichen getrennte Flatfile (A data file that contains one or more records separated by a record delimiter. Each delimited record contains one or more fields separated by a common field delimiter) |
| flat appearance | flache Darstellung (The recommended visual display of a control when it is nested inside another control or scrollable region) |
| flat cap | flacher Abschluss (For paths that contain unconnected ends, the end of the stroke that is left as a flat edge) |
| flat file | Flatfile (A file consisting of records of a single record type in which there is no embedded structure information that governs relationships between records) |
| flat file format | Flatfileformat (An image file format in which individual objects cannot be edited. Files stored in JPEG, GIF, and BMP formats are all flat files. The PhotoDraw MIX file format is not a flat file format) |
| flat-file logging | Flatfileprotokollierung (The process of creating an event log that is written to a UTF-8 formatted text file) |
| flat list | flache Liste (A result set in which any member hierarchies are ignored and all members are presented as equal. Regardless of how the members are presented however, hierarchical information is always maintained in the member metadata) |
| flat namespace | flacher Namespace (A namespace that is unstructured and cannot be partitioned, such as the network basic input/output system (NetBIOS) namespace. In a flat namespace, every object must have a unique name) |
| flat panel monitor | Flachbildschirm (A desktop computer monitor that uses a liquid crystal display (LCD) rather than a cathode ray tube (CRT) to display data. Flat panel monitors are not as deep as CRT monitors and so occupy much less physical space) |
| flat screen monitor | Flachbildschirm (A desktop computer monitor that uses a liquid crystal display (LCD) rather than a cathode ray tube (CRT) to display data. Flat panel monitors are not as deep as CRT monitors and so occupy much less physical space) |
| positional flat file | Flatfile mit Feldern fester Breite (A type of file format used to represent business documents in which the records and fields have a fixed length, eliminating the need for delimiters) |
