| Subject | English | French |
| meas.inst. | counter spurious tube counts | coups parasites |
| radiat. | spurious count | coup accidentel (of a radiation counter tube) |
| earth.sc., tech. | spurious count | coup parasite |
| radiat. | spurious count | coup parasite (of a radiation counter tube) |
| gen. | spurious count see also under count | comptage erroné ou fausse |
| tech. | spurious counts | coups parasites |
| tech. | spurious counts | comptage accidentel |