| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | delimited flat file | 带分隔符的平面文件 (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) |
| comp., MS | flat file | 平面文件 (A file consisting of records of a single record type in which there is no embedded structure information that governs relationships between records) |
| comp., MS | flat file format | 平面文件格式 (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., MS | flat-file logging | 平面文件记录 (The process of creating an event log that is written to a UTF-8 formatted text file) |
| comp., MS | positional flat file | 位置平面文件 (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) |