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# CW20 Glossary

There has been a note in the feedback for day one saying

> Some of the RSE’s expect that others are on their software/code level, which is not always the case :)   Some of the RSE’s expect that others are on their software/code level, which is not always the case :)
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Perhaps we can use this as some sort of glossary, collecting words/phrases that people may not know/need more explanation for.

Please add any words that you'd like explained below, and please - if you can - add an explanation for any unexplained terms.

A list of formatting options for Markdown (the simple formatting language for this document) is here: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet.

- **CFF**: Citation File Format (https://citations-file-format.github.io), a machine- and human-readable metadata format for citation information for software