This International Standard gives the technical classification of woodworking machines and auxiliary machines for woodworking. Its aim is to enable manufacturers and users of different nationalities to overcome language difficulties, and to understand each other more readily. Particular attention has been given to the wording used in the classification. When there was a risk of confusion, the most appropriate terms were chosen in each language, in preference to literal translations. NOTE — In addition to terms used in the three official ISO languages (English, French and Russian) this International Standard gives the equivalent terms in the Portuguese, German, Spanish, Italian and Swedish languages; these have been included at the request of Technical Committee ISO/TC 39 and are published under the responsibility of the member bodies for Portugal (DGQ), Germany, F.R. (DIN), Spain (AENOR), Italy (UNI) and Sweden (SIS). However, only the terms given in the official languages can be considered as ISO terms.