| Subject | English | Chinese Taiwan |
| comp., MS | Access database engine | Access 資料庫引擎 (Part of the Access database system that retrieves and stores data in user and system databases. The engine can be thought of as a data manager on which database systems are built) |
| comp., MS | ACS rules engine | ACS 規則引擎 (The component in ACS that processes the input claims that are present in the security tokens that ACS receives from clients and which generates the output claims that are present in the security tokens that ACS issues to relying-party applications) |
| comp., MS | Base Filtering Engine | 基礎篩選引擎 (A service that coordinates the filtering platform components) |
| comp., MS | BPA engine | BPA 引擎 (The engine that captures and processes the results of the Best Practice Analyzer (BPA)) |
| comp., MS | Business Rule Engine | 商務規則引擎 (A run-time inference engine that evaluates rules against facts and initiates actions based on the results of that evaluation) |
| comp., MS | CEP engine | CEP 引擎 (The core engine and adapter framework components of Microsoft StreamInsight. The StreamInsight server can be used to process and analyze the event streams associated with a complex event processing application) |
| comp., MS | data flow engine | 資料流程引擎 (An engine that executes the data flow in a package) |
| comp., MS | database engine | 資料庫引擎 (The program module or modules that provide access to a database management system (DBMS)) |
| comp., MS | decision engine | 決策引擎 (Software or service able to process a large amount of data and provide reports that help users make more informed decisions) |
| comp., MS | DPM engine | DPM 引擎 (A policy-driven engine that DPM uses to protect and recover data) |
| comp., MS | Duet engine | Duet 引擎 (A Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 and Information Bridge Framework based client runtime that interprets Duet end-user application metadata, creates the end-user experience in Microsoft Office, and executes the application logic) |
| comp., MS | engine adapter | 引擎介面卡 (An adapter that performs various core biometric operations: cleanup of sensor data, feature extraction, template generation, matching, and indexing. These functions can either be implemented by software in the engine adapter, or by the engine adapter making use of some piece of processing hardware) |
| comp., MS | Engine Input File | 引擎輸入檔 (A compiled version of a document schema. The EIF is used to expedite translations for distribution among other users in a closed user group. The EIF is automatically compiled whenever an XML Schema Definition language (XSD) schema is generated or edited, using BizTalk Server) |
| comp., MS | event processing engine | 事件處理引擎 (The core component of BizTalk RFID. The event processing engine creates and manages an event processing pipeline by using the device and component bindings in each custom source) |
| comp., MS | Extensible Storage Engine | 可延伸儲存引擎 (A method that defines a low-level API to the underlying database structures in Exchange Server. Extensible Storage Engine is also used by other databases, such as the Active Directory directory service database) |
| comp., MS | Gesture Engine | 筆勢引擎 (An engine that specifically recognizes and processes touch input and multi-touch input as commands) |
| comp., MS | graphics engine | 圖形引擎 (A video card that contains a graphics coprocessor. A graphics accelerator can update the video display much more quickly than the CPU can, and it frees the CPU for other tasks. A graphics accelerator is a necessity for modern software such as graphical user interfaces and multimedia applications) |
| comp., MS | group policy engine | 群組原則引擎 (The framework that handles common functionalities across client-side extensions including scheduling of Group Policy application, obtaining GPOs from relevant configuration locations, and filtering and ordering of GPOs) |
| comp., MS | Jet engine | Jet 引擎 (A client/server data engine that provides local data storage on a smaller computer system and that is compatible with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and prior) |
| comp., MS | MEF composition engine | MEF 組合引擎 (An object that resolves a MEF part's dependencies and exposes its capabilities to other MEF parts and apps through composition, that is, by binding MEF imports to MEF exports) |
| comp., MS | repository engine | 儲存機制引擎 (Object-oriented software that provides management support for and customer access to a repository database) |
| comp., MS | RSS Platform Sync Engine | RSS 平台同步化引擎 (A synchronization engine which will automatically download data and enclosures for use by any application. The engine is designed for efficiency, using idle network bandwidth whenever possible to limit the effect on the users Internet experience. Developers can use the platform to get RSS data without having to manage details such as synchronization schedules or subscriptions) |
| comp., MS | Rules Engine Framework | 規則引擎架構 (The .NET component library, APIs, and services used by application developers to write rule-based applications) |
| comp., MS | Rules Engine Update service | 規則引擎更新服務 (A service that performs dynamic policy updates) |
| comp., MS | scan engine | 掃描引擎 (Software used to inspect messages to detect viruses or to identify spam) |
| comp., MS | scripting engine | 指令碼引擎 (A program that interprets and executes a script) |
| comp., MS | search engine | 搜尋引擎 (A program that searches for key words in documents, databases, Internet content or other files) |
| comp., MS | search engine optimization | 搜尋引擎最佳化 (The act of modifying the pages of a Web site so that its content is more easily discoverable by Internet search engines) |
| comp., MS | storage engine | 儲存引擎 (A component of SQL Server that is responsible for managing the raw physical data in your database. For example, reading and writing the data to disk is a task handled by the storage engine) |
| comp., MS | synchronization engine | 同步作業引擎 (A software system that retrieves information from a source data store and synchronizes (pushes) to a target data store. Examples of synchronization engines are the ILM 2007 and FIM 2010 synchronization engines, and the service that synchronizes data rows in the SQL Server Express database with objects in the Microsoft Office Outlook data store) |
| comp., MS | theme engine | 主題引擎 (The program module that applies a predefined graphic theme to the user interface) |
| comp., MS | Touch Interaction Engine | 觸控互動引擎 (The engine that detects and decides what a gesture (tap, pinch, zoom) means) |