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Appendix A: Terminology
Teminology Currently in Use
The following list contains words commonly used throughout the Solana architecture.
- account - a persistent file addressed by pubkey and with tokens tracking its lifetime
- cluster - a set of fullnodes maintaining a single ledger
- finality - the wallclock duration between a leader creating a tick entry and recoginizing a supermajority of validator votes with a ledger interpretation that matches the leader's
- fullnode - a full participant in the cluster - either a leader or validator node
- entry - an entry on the ledger - either a tick or a transactions entry
- instruction - the smallest unit of a program that a client can include in a transaction
- keypair - a public and secret key
- mips - millions of instructions per second
- node count - the number of fullnodes participating in a cluster
- program - the code that interprets instructions
- pubkey - the public key of a keypair
- tick - a ledger entry that estimates wallclock duration
- tick height - the Nth tick in the ledger
- tps - transactions per second
- transaction - one or more instructions signed by the client and executed atomically
- transactions entry - a set of transactions that may be executed in parallel
Terminology Reserved for Future Use
The following keywords do not have any functionality but are reserved by Solana for potential future use.
- mips - millions of instructions per second
- public key - We currently use
pubkey - secret key - Users currently only use
keypair