| Subject | English | French |
| construct. | curved ruler, French curve | règle courbe |
| industr., construct., met. | cutter's table ruler | règle graduée |
| transp., tech. | distance ruler | règle d'écartement |
| transp., tech. | distance ruler | écartomètre |
| gen. | drawing rulers | règles à dessiner |
| patents. | drawing squares and rulers | équerres et règles à dessin |
| scient. | flat ruler | règle plate |
| gen. | folding ruler | pied de roi (Québec) |
| scient. | hatching ruler | règle à hachurer |
| comp., MS | horizontal ruler | règle horizontale (A bar marked off in units of measure (such as inches) that is displayed across the top of the document window) |
| comp. | horizontal ruler | règle horizontale |
| hobby, transp. | parallel ruler | règles parallèles |
| hobby, transp. | parallel ruler | règle parallèle |
| law | restraint of princes, rulers or peoples | contrainte de prince, autorités ou peuple |
| comp. | ruler crosshair | viseur de réticule en croix |
| IT, dat.proc. | ruler guide | repère de règle |
| comp., MS | ruler guide | repère de règle (A horizontal or vertical layout guide that can be aligned to any point on a ruler) |
| comp., MS | ruler guide marker | marqueur du guide de la règle (A marker in the ruler that aligns with the current guide position and enables users to add, edit, or delete a guide from within the ruler) |
| comp., MS | ruler mark | marque de règle (A mark on the vertical or horizontal ruler that shows a unit or subunit of the measurement unit that is used for the publication) |
| comp., MS | ruler origin | origine de la règle (The beginning or zero point of a horizontal or vertical ruler) |
| comp., MS | ruler subdivision | subdivision de la règle (The division between grid lines and between intervals of the ruler) |
| tech. | ruler without graduations | règle non graduée |
| tech. | ruler without graduations | règle non divisée |
| patents. | rulers and geometry sets | règles et instruments de géométrie |
| tech. | school ruler | règle d'écolier |
| patents. | school supplies, namely fountain pens, pencils, erasers, pencil cases, pencil sharpeners, rulers, staplers, paperweights, notebooks, folders, ring binders, spiral notepads, book covers and bookmarks | fournitures scolaires, à savoir crayons, gommes, trousses à crayons, taille-crayons, règles, agrafeuses, presse-papiers, cahiers, classeurs, classeurs à anneaux, blocs-notes à spirales, couvertures de livres et signets |
| trav. | sight-ruler | règle |
| transp., tech. | spacing ruler | règle d'écartement |
| transp., tech. | spacing ruler | écartomètre |
| scient. | square ruler | règle carrée |
| gen. | square rulers | carrelets règles |
| scient. | standard ruler | règle-étalon |
| gen. | the world's rulers | les maîtres du monde |
| UN, afr. | "traditional rulers" | " chefs traditionnels " |
| comp., MS | vertical ruler | règle verticale (A bar displayed along the left side of a document window. You can use the vertical ruler to adjust the top and bottom page margins and the row height in tables) |
| comp. | vertical ruler | règle verticale |