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====== Proposed list of MVF related concepts ====== * **Term** – text used to denote a notion or thing of interest (usually using a word or phrase) in a natural language. * **Definition** – a string used to describe a notion or thing of interest in a natural language. * **Vocabulary** – A set of Terms, Synonyms, and Definitions (typically for an area of interest) for a single natural language. * **MultilingualDictionary** – A set of Vocabularies that denote and describe a particular set of notions or things in two or more natural languages. * **MVFRepository** – A run time repository in an MVF enabled system that may simultaneously contain multiple MultilingualDictionaries and/or Vocabularies to support development of an MVF Vocabulary or MultilingualDictionary. * **TermEntry** – entity in a terminology data system (or terminology artifact) for a Term plus metadata and other relations that a Term may have with other entities in a data system or artifact. * **MVFEntry** – entity or proxy in an MVF based data system (or terminology artifact) for a notion or thing of interest that may be used to collect or connect metadata and/or related entities within a terminology data system or artifact. * **Artifact** – A human or machine readable thing that can be used to present, communicate, or exchange information. Types of terminological artifacts include Vocabularies and MultilingualDictionaries.
