Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

autocom

English translation:

PABX

Added to glossary by Jeanne Zang
Oct 7, 2016 19:30
7 yrs ago
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French term

autocom

French to English Tech/Engineering Computers: Systems, Networks
This is an entry under a list of facilities and equipment of an office complex.

tous les systèmes de contrôle et de surveillance de l’autocom, de la Gestion Technique du Bâtiment (GTB) ou de la Gestion Technique Centralisée (GTC)
Proposed translations (English)
4 +2 PABX

Proposed translations

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PABX

I'm pretty sure it is short for 'autocommutateur' — and my hunch was borne out when that came up as the first hits when I Googled on 'autocom'

E.g.:

Autocommutateur téléphonique privé — Wikipédia

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocommutateur_téléphonique_p...

Généralités · ‎Évolutions · ‎Interopérabilité · ‎Principaux fabricants

And from Wiktionnaire:

Un autocommutateur téléphonique privé est souvent désigné par l'anglicisme Private Automatic Branch eXchange, lequel est abrégé par le sigle PABX et parfois PBX.
Peer comment(s):

agree philgoddard
4 hrs
Thanks, Phil!
agree Didier Fourcot : Or PBX, "A" is for automatic, the manual type is obsolete since decades
2 days 14 hrs
Merci, Didier ! Yes, indeed! But just as the FR keeps the 'auto', so is the 'A' still commonly retained in EN, as I have seen in many documents right up to the present.
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