Note 1: Equivalent phrases in one language can in many instances equate to single or multiword terms or compound words in other languages.
Note 2: Multilingual term pairs can be identified as equivalent or quasi-equivalent, depending on the degree of similarity in their underlying concepts, and they can also be qualified as bidirectional or monodirectional, depending on whether the equivalence relationship operates in one or both directions (see directionality, A.3.3). Nonequivalence is also frequently listed as a degree of equivalence, but nonequivalents require different treatment because they will not appear as equivalent terms in the same term entry (see false friend, A.3.2).