| English | French |
| primary buffer | mémoire tampon principale (A buffer in which all data is mixed for the final time and then passed to the rendering device) |
| primary business contact | contact professionnel principal (The main business contact linked to an Account) |
| primary calendar | calendrier principal (The calendar selected in the regional settings in Windows Control Panel, or the system calendar) |
| primary client computer | ordinateur client principal (A client computer on which synchronization takes place) |
| primary database | base de données primaire (In a log shipping, a read-write database whose transaction log is backed up at regular intervals for restoring onto one or more secondary databases) |
| primary device | périphérique principal (A software deployment condition that defines one or more devices that a specific user uses. A primary device is typically determined either by frequency of use or by business requirements) |
| primary dimension table | table de dimension principale (In a snowflake schema in a data warehouse, a dimension table that is directly related to, and usually joined to, the fact table) |
| Primary disk | disque principal (The hard disk drive that contains the system and boot partitions used to start Windows) |
| primary e-mail address | adresse de messagerie principale (The e-mail address that appears in the E-Mail Options section of the user's mailbox in the Web management interface for Outlook Live) |
| primary feature block | bloc de fonctionnalité principal (The minimum content in an application package that is necessary for an application to run. The content in the primary feature block is identified during the application phase of sequencing and typically consists of the content for the most used application features) |
| primary interop assembly An assembly containing definitions of COM types that is distributed and digitally signed by the author of the COM component. Visual Studio uses a registered primary interop assembly by default when a developer references a type in the corresponding type library | assembly PIA (Primary Interop Assembly) |
| primary key | clé primaire (One or more fields that uniquely identify each record in a table. In the same way that a license plate number identifies a car, the primary key uniquely identifies a record) |
| primary Management Server | serveur d'administration principal (The server that an agent-managed computer is specifically assigned to communicate with) |
| primary mapping | mappage principal (The main mapping that associates the UNIX user name to one of several Windows user names who are both associated with one UNIX user name) |
| primary master | maître principal (An authoritative DNS server for a zone that can be used as a point of update for the zone. Only primary masters have the ability to be updated directly to process zone updates, which include adding, removing, or modifying resource records that are stored as zone data. Primary masters are also used as the first sources for replicating the zone to other DNS servers) |
| primary mouse button | bouton principal de la souris (The button on your pointing device that you use most often for clicking and double-clicking) |
| primary parent category | catégorie parente primaire (The parent category of a product or category that is used to determine the canonical path to that product or category, or to apply category level pricing rules to the category or product) |
| primary partition | partition principale (A type of partition created on basic disks that can host an operating system and functions as though it were a physically separate disk) |
| primary protection | protection principale (A type of protection in which data on the protected server is directly protected by a primary DPM Server) |
| primary server | serveur principal (In a log shipping configuration, the server instance where the primary database resides) |
| primary site | site principal (An SMS/Configuration Manager site that has access to a SQL Server database) |
| primary storage device | dispositif de stockage principal (A storage device that holds data in temporary memory such as RAM) |
| primary table | table primaire (" The "one" side of two related tables in a one-to-many relationship. A primary table should have a primary key and each record should be unique.") |
| primary token | jeton principal (An access token assigned to a process to represent the default information for that process. It is used in security operations by a thread working on behalf of the process itself rather than on behalf of a client) |
| primary unit | unité principale (The measurement used to define the most commonly sold unit of a product) |
| primary user | utilisateur principal (The main user of a device. (A device can have more than one primary user)) |
| primary virtual machine | ordinateur virtuel principal (A virtual machine hosted on the primary server and replicated to the machines on the Replica server) |
| primary window | fenêtre principale (The window in which the main interaction with an object takes place) |
| primary zone | zone principale (A copy of the zone that is administered locally) |
