| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | Common Intermediate Language | 公共中间语言 (A language used as the output of a number of compilers and as the input to a just-in-time (JIT) compiler. The common language runtime includes a JIT compiler for converting the language to native code) |
| comp., MS | Common Language Infrastructure | 公共语言基础结构 (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) |
| comp., MS | common language runtime | 公共语言运行时 (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) |
| comp., MS | common language runtime host | 公共语言运行时主机 (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) |
| comp., MS | Common Language Runtime support | 公共语言运行时支持 (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) |
| comp., MS | Common Language Specification | 公共语言规范 (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) |