tranche = 'an installment of any kind'

[Dan Goncharoff]

Bundle and package are technical terms with other meanings. Tranche is
more accurate than installment when data is being sliced but not
transmitted.

It also has an older history of use to describe portions of data, so
it is not strictly a borrowing.
DanG



On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> But why use an opaque, jargonesque borrowing from the opaque jargon of an
> unrelated field when a simple word like "bundle" or "package" or
> "installment" will do?
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> Oh. The question answers itself.
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> JL
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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> If you search for "tranche of data" you find a lot of use in the UK
>> and Ireland in the past few years. The link you provided is Irish.
>> DanG
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>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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>> > A couple of years ago even the economic sense was obscure. But now:
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>> http://www.itma.ie/digitallibrary/print-collection/charlotte-milligan-fox/
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>> > "1 August 2011: The latest tranche of material has been added to our
>> Digital
>> > Library."
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>> > JL
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