5 Japanese Words from this Week's News (17 November 2014 - 21 November 2014)

5 Japanese Words from this Week's News

今週のニュースから五つ日本語の言葉

5 Japanese words to build one's vocabulary culled from the week's news for 17 November 2014 to 21 November 2014.This week's sources for the words are the Asahi Shinbun, IDC Frontier (Softbank's Cloud Computing & Data Center Division), the Wall Street Journal, NTT Data's Intra-mart integration frame work, and NTT East.

English	Japanese
	Kanji	Kana
Global Positioning System　(GPS)	全地球測位 システム	ぜんちきゅう　そくい　 システム
Cloud Service		クラウドサービス
Freemium		フリーミアム
Mission Critical System	基幹システム	きいかん システム
Monthly (Usage) Fee	月額利用料	げつがく りようりょう

First Kanji

This post’s first Kanji is 全, which per jisho.org means all; whole; entire; complete; overall and can be used as a prefix for pan- and omni-.

On: ぜん	Kun:  まった.く、 すべ.て
Chinese pronunciation: quán

Telecom Terms

Batch processing Technique in which a computer system sequentially executes job assignments without communicating with other systems during the processing operations, opposite of “real time processing.”

バッチ処理、一括処理　作業処理間に他のシステムと連絡せずに割当てられた仕事を逐次処理するコンピューター・システム技術。”実時間処理”と対比される。

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This Week's Mandarin Terminology

Sources

Asahi Shimbun	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk5n1
IDC Frontier	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk5n2
Wall Street Journal	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk5n3
NTT Data Intra-mart	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk5n4
NTT East	http://bit.ly/5JWordsWk5n5
Jisho.org, visualmandarin.com Telecom Terms, AT&T, 1987. ISBN0-932764-13-4.

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