# Glossary

The purpose of this document is define the specific terms which should be used
for various concepts, with the goal of establishing consistency throughout
documentation and source code.

- "Isle" - The name of this project, which is a proper noun and so should always
  be capitalized.

- "isle" - The name of the binary or program produced by the Isle project. isle
  is the name of the file itself, and so is always lower-case.

- "host" - A computer or device on which isle is run.

- "isle network", "network" - A collection of hosts which communicate and share
  resources with each other via the Isle project.

  - "garage cluster" - Garage is one of the sub-processes which isle is able to
    run. These garage process connect together to form a cluster. We use the
    term "cluster" in the context of garage to stay consistent with garage's
    documentation and command-line.

- "user" - A person who takes part in the usage, operation, or administration of
  an isle network.