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Glossary of Terms
vicissitudinous. Constraints are flexible within the overall limitations set.
Context: Context is the situation or framework (Aerts et al. 2003) in which
the interaction between two objects takes place.
Correlation: Correlated events have nexus, without satisfying the three
types of causal events required for strict demands of recognizing
cause(s) and effect(s). That correlation depends on developing metrics
for both subjective measures and for objective measures that are
related to the same concomitant object and process (i.e., procedure,
activity, or act (in decreasing level of sophistication and complexity)).
Cost: What was spent in money or material wealth to accomplish or produce
an object or process. Cost is a consummate, independent measure of
a cycle.
Coupling: The degree of dependency between objects or between processes.
Customer: The person or organizational entity (object or process) that buys
products or services (objects or processes).
Cycle: An event or series of events that are regularly repeated in the same
order.*
Deduction: An inference based on a principle, rule, or process.*
De facto: The accidental embodiment of systems that are caused by human
or natural workings (that which is unintended). De facto systems
can be thought of as emergent systems that have developed as a
result of circumstances.
Definition: Descriptive, explanatory, ostensive, stipulative, explicative, recipe, or examples of a word (sometimes referred to as a term) or a
concept (Swartz 1997).
Definitional: Defined as limiting the extent of a meaning of a noun.*
De jure: The rightful (that which is intended) embodiment of human work
in the form of products and services.
Deonitic: Study of duty, ethics, and piety.*
Dependent: Enabled or sustained by interaction with an object or process.
Design: Design is the conceptualization of the needs of the stakeholders.
Domain: Domain is the sphere of activity that includes the physical entities,
functions, processes as related through their relations and context.
Element: An element is an object and process, combined or integrated.
Embodiment: The tangible or material form.*
Emergence: Any effect that produces a change in intrinsic properties, traits,
or attributes that results by combining objects through the interactions of objects with EMMI. Emergence is due to the traits of an
object or objects, process or processes.
EMMI: Energy, matter, material wealth, and information. EMMI expresses
the interactions between objects.
Energy: Energy is the capacity to do work, that is, to make change.
Engineering: A workable definition of engineering is found on the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) site
Glossary of Terms
vicissitudinous. Constraints are flexible within the overall limitations set.
Context: Context is the situation or framework (Aerts et al. 2003) in which
the interaction between two objects takes place.
Correlation: Correlated events have nexus, without satisfying the three
types of causal events required for strict demands of recognizing
cause(s) and effect(s). That correlation depends on developing metrics
for both subjective measures and for objective measures that are
related to the same concomitant object and process (i.e., procedure,
activity, or act (in decreasing level of sophistication and complexity)).
Cost: What was spent in money or material wealth to accomplish or produce
an object or process. Cost is a consummate, independent measure of
a cycle.
Coupling: The degree of dependency between objects or between processes.
Customer: The person or organizational entity (object or process) that buys
products or services (objects or processes).
Cycle: An event or series of events that are regularly repeated in the same
order.*
Deduction: An inference based on a principle, rule, or process.*
De facto: The accidental embodiment of systems that are caused by human
or natural workings (that which is unintended). De facto systems
can be thought of as emergent systems that have developed as a
result of circumstances.
Definition: Descriptive, explanatory, ostensive, stipulative, explicative, recipe, or examples of a word (sometimes referred to as a term) or a
concept (Swartz 1997).
Definitional: Defined as limiting the extent of a meaning of a noun.*
De jure: The rightful (that which is intended) embodiment of human work
in the form of products and services.
Deonitic: Study of duty, ethics, and piety.*
Dependent: Enabled or sustained by interaction with an object or process.
Design: Design is the conceptualization of the needs of the stakeholders.
Domain: Domain is the sphere of activity that includes the physical entities,
functions, processes as related through their relations and context.
Element: An element is an object and process, combined or integrated.
Embodiment: The tangible or material form.*
Emergence: Any effect that produces a change in intrinsic properties, traits,
or attributes that results by combining objects through the interactions of objects with EMMI. Emergence is due to the traits of an
object or objects, process or processes.
EMMI: Energy, matter, material wealth, and information. EMMI expresses
the interactions between objects.
Energy: Energy is the capacity to do work, that is, to make change.
Engineering: A workable definition of engineering is found on the
Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) site