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# 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, as well as an instance of the process, 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.
- "member" - A person who takes part in the usage, operation, or administration
of an isle network.