| Subject | English | German |
| comp., MS | 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) |
| gen. | engineer's flat pointed file | Flachfeile (flachspitze Form) |
| gen. | flat file | Einfachdatei |
| mech.eng. | flat file | Ansatzfeile |
| comp., MS | 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) |
| tech. | flat file | Flachstumpffeile |
| gen. | flat file | Flachfeile |
| gen. | flat file | flache Datei |
| comp., MS | 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) |
| comp. | flat file system | nichthierarchisches Dateisystem |
| comp. | flat file system | flaches Dateisystem |
| gen. | engineer's flat hand file | Flachfeile (Querschnitt rechteckig, konstante Breite, eine Schmalseite mit Hieb) |
| tech. | flat mill file | Schlichtfeile |
| comp., MS | flat-file logging | Flatfileprotokollierung (The process of creating an event log that is written to a UTF-8 formatted text file) |
| comp., MS | 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) |
| gen. | tapered flat file | Flachfeile (flachspitze Form) |