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