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credential [3 records]

Record 1 2023-11-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
DEF

Information used by a computer system to verify that a user's claimed identity is valid.

OBS

Passwords and fingerprints are examples of authenticators.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Information à l'aide de laquelle un système informatique vérifie la validité de l'identité déclarée par un utilisateur.

OBS

Les mots de passe et les empreintes digitales sont des exemples d'authentifiants.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-03-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personnel and Job Evaluation
  • Recruiting of Personnel
  • Citizenship and Immigration
DEF

A documented evidence of learning based on completion of a recognized program of study, training, work experience, or prior learning assessment.

OBS

Degrees, diplomas, certificates, and licences are examples of a credential.

OBS

credential: term usually used in the plural.

OBS

Terminology used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Key term(s)
  • credentials

French

Domaine(s)
  • Évaluation du personnel et des emplois
  • Recrutement du personnel
  • Citoyenneté et immigration
DEF

Document attestant du fait qu’une personne a atteint un certain niveau de connaissances, soit à l’issue d’un programme d’études reconnu, d’une formation, d’une expérience de travail ou d’une évaluation des acquis.

OBS

Les grades, les diplômes, les certificats et les permis d’exercice sont tous des titres de compétence.

OBS

titre de compétences : terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

OBS

Terminologie employée par Citoyenneté et Immigration Canada.

Key term(s)
  • titres de compétences

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Evaluación del personal y los cargos
  • Contratación de personal
  • Ciudadanía e inmigración
CONT

La designación del personal docente es de competencia y responsabilidad exclusiva del Instituto. Solo podrán integrar ese personal, incluso con carácter suplente, las [...] personas [que] posean antecedentes relevantes o títulos de competencias expedidos por institutos de notoria significación docente, nacionales, internacionales o extranjeros.

OBS

título de competencias: término utilizado generalmente en plural.

Key term(s)
  • títulos de competencias
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Record 3 2000-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diplomacy
DEF

The name for letters given to an ambassador by his chief of state, and addressed to the chief of state of his host country.

CONT

[The letters] are delivered to the latter by ambassadors in a formal credentials ceremony, which generally takes place shortly after his arrival at a new post. Until this ceremony has taken place he is not formally recognized by the host country, and he cannot officially act as ambassador. The letters are termed "letters of credence" because they request the receiving chief of state to give "full credence" to what the ambassador will say on behalf of his government.

OBS

Reproduced from the Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • credential
  • letter of credence
  • letter credential
  • credential letter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Diplomatie
Key term(s)
  • lettre de créance

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Diplomacia
OBS

Reproducido del Glosario Provisional de Términos Jurídicos con la autorización de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas en Ginebra.

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