| Italian | English |
| Common Gateway Interface | common gateway interface (A server-side interface for initiating software services. For example, a set of interfaces that describe how a Web server communicates with software on the same computer. Any software can be a CGI program if it handles input and output according to the CGI standard) |
| Common Language Infrastructure, infrastruttura CLI | Common Language Infrastructure (A specification describing how applications written in multiple high-level languages may be executed in different system environments without the need to rewrite the applications to take into consideration the unique characteristics of those environments) |
| Common Language Runtime | common language runtime (The engine at the core of managed code execution. The runtime supplies managed code with services such as cross-language integration, code access security, object lifetime management, and debugging and profiling support) |
| Common Language Specification, specifiche CLS | Common Language Specification (A subset of language features supported by the common language runtime, including features common to several object-oriented programming languages. CLS-compliant components and tools are guaranteed to interoperate with other CLS-compliant components and tools) |
| Common Object File Format, formato COFF | common object file format (A format in 32-bit programming for executable (image) and object files that is portable across platforms. The Microsoft implementation is called portable executable (PE) file format) |
| Common Type System | common type system (The specification that determines how the common language runtime defines, uses, and manages types) |
| host di Common Language Runtime | common language runtime host (An unmanaged application that uses a set of APIs, called the hosting interfaces, to integrate managed code into the application. Common language runtime hosts often require a high degree of customization over the runtime that is loaded into the process) |
| supporto Common Language Runtime | Common Language Runtime support (The engine at the core of managed code execution. The runtime supplies managed code with services such as cross-language integration, code access security, object lifetime management, and debugging and profiling support) |
