watermark

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Etymology

water + mark

Noun

Wikipedia watermark (plural watermarks)

1. A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
2. (computing) Auxiliary data embedded in a datafile for subsequent identification and verification of the file.

Translations

translucent design impressed on paper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 水印 (cmn) (shuǐyìn)

• Danish: vandmærke (da) n
• Dutch: watermerk (nl)
• Finnish: vesileima (fi)
• French: filigrane (fr) m
• German: Wasserzeichen (de) n
• Greek: υδατόσημο (el) (ydatósimo) n

• Italian: filigrana (it) f
• Japanese: 透かし (ja) (すかし, sukashi)
• Latvian: ūdenszīme (lv)
• Norwegisn:

  Bokmål: vannmerke (nb) n, vassmerke (nb) n

  Nynorsk: vassmerke (nn) n

• Russian: водяной знак (ru) (vodjanój znak) m
• Swedish: vattenstämpel (sv) c, vattenmärke (sv) n

embedded auxiliary data

• Finnish: vesileima (fi)

• Greek: ψηφιακό υδατόσημο (el) (psifiakó ydatósimo) n

Verb

watermark (third-person singular simple present watermarks, present participle watermarking, simple past and past participle watermarked)

1. (transitive) To mark paper with a watermark.
2. (transitive) To mark a datafile with a watermark.

Translations

to mark paper with a watermark

• Finnish: vesileimata (fi)

• German: mit Wasserzeichen versehen

to mark a datafile with watermark

• Finnish: vesileimata (fi)