Glossary

The following pages contain definitions of the specialized words highlighted in the text of this book, as well as definitions of all the classes present in its models. In the definitions, other defined words are also highlighted. Words in SMALL CAPITALS are the names of entity classes in the model. Other words defined are simply various terms referred to in this book. To the right of each definition is a list of the chapters in which the term is discussed; the primary chapter is listed first.

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