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Subject:Re: I'm looking for a word... From:"Janet M. Swisher" <swisher -at- enthought -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 13 Apr 2005 10:45:04 -0500
Bill Swallow wrote:
> One of our developers likes to call them "thunks"... That is, it's a
> big thing and to use it you just *thunk*... drop it in place. ;-)
> I'm not sure of the technical term you should use (or invent) because
> I'm not terribly familiar with what you're trying to do. "Layer" could
> work, depending on how your methodology is structured. If you're
> getting conceptual in description, "piece" or "portion" might work
> well.
Is "part" too untechnical? Of all the suggestions so far, "subsystem"
seems most descriptive to me. "Constituent" is another option.
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