| English | French |
| causality chain | chaîne de causalité (A series of method calls, events, and asynchronous operations leading from the beginning of a program to the statement currently being executed at run time) |
| certificate chain | chaîne de certificats (A sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the sequence is signed by the subsequent certificate. The last certificate in the chain is normally a self-signed certificate) |
| chain of trust | chaîne d'approbation (A sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the sequence is signed by the subsequent certificate. The last certificate in the chain is normally a self-signed certificate) |
| company chain | chaîne de sociétés (A group of companies that are under the same ownership and management) |
| cross-database ownership chaining | chaînage des propriétés des bases de données croisées (An ownership chain that spans more than one database) |
| differencing chain | chaîne de différenciation (A linked set of differencing drives, in which a differencing drive can have another differencing drive as a parent) |
| key chain drive | lecteur porte-clés (A small device used to store information. USB flash drives plug into computer USB ports so you can copy information to or from them, making it easy to share and transport information) |
| license chain | chaîne de licence (A license for digital media content that is composed of connected elements that include a root license and one or more leaf licenses, each of which contains a subset of rights for the content) |
| link chain | chaîne de liens (A series of redirecting web links that are designed to hide malicious websites) |
| log chain | séquence de journaux de transactions consécutifs (A continuous sequence of transaction logs for a database. A new log chain begins with the first backup taken after the database is created, or when the database is switched from the simple to the full or bulk-logged recovery model. A log chain forks after a restore followed by a recovery, creating a new recovery branch) |
| ownership chain | chaînes de propriétés (When an object references other objects and the calling and the called objects are owned by the same user. SQL Server uses the ownership chain to determine how to check permissions) |
| supply chain management | Gestion de la chaîne logistique (The management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers) |
| swap chain | chaîne d'échange (A collection of buffers used for displaying frames to the user) |
| task chain | chaîne de tâche (A sequence of tasks that are defined in a job template so that tasks act on the output of preceding tasks in a workflow) |
| trust chain | chaîne d'approbation (A sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the sequence is signed by the subsequent certificate. The last certificate in the chain is normally a self-signed certificate) |
| validation chain | chaîne de validation (A sequence of certificates, where each certificate in the sequence is signed by the subsequent certificate. The last certificate in the chain is normally a self-signed certificate) |
