| Subject | French | English |
| IT | caractère de commande de tabulation | tab control character |
| IT, tech. | caractère de tabulation | tabulation character |
| comp., MS | caractère de tabulation | tab character (A character used to align lines and columns on screen and in print. Although a tab is visually indistinguishable from a series of blank spaces in most programs, the tab character and the space character are different to a computer. A tab is a single character and therefore can be added, deleted, or overtyped with a single keystroke) |
| comp. | caractère de tabulation horizontale | horizontal tabulation character |
| comp. | caractère de tabulation horizontale | horizontal tab |
| IT | caractère de tabulation verticale | vertical tabulation character |
| comp. | caractère de tabulation verticale | vertical tab |