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.. _reference-glossary:

Glossary
========

.. glossary::

   API
      An acronym for the term *Application Programming Interface*, which refers to an interface that allows two applications to talk to one another.
      More recently, the term has been used as a shorthand for a *Web API*, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_API for further details.

   AI
      An acronym for the term *Artificial Intelligence*.

   AML
      An acronym for the term *Adversarial Machine Learning*.

   GHCR
      An acronym for the GitHub Container Registry that hosts container images.

   GUI
      An acronym for the term **Graphical User Interface**.

   HTTP
      An acronym for the term *Hypertext Transfer Protocol*, which are a set of rules that control the way data is sent and received over the internet.
      The HTTP specification is available at https://httpwg.org/specs/.

   JSON
      An acronym for the term *JavaScript Object Notation*.
      JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that is completely language independent despite being based on a subset of the JavaScript Programming Language Standard ECMA-262 3rd Edition - December 1999.
      For more information, see https://www.json.org.

   ML
      An acronym for the term *Machine Learning*.

   REST
      An acronym for REpresentational State Transfer, which is an architectural approach to designing web services `proposed by Roy Fielding in 2000 <https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm>`_.
      For more information, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design#what-is-rest.

   SDK
      An acronym for the term *Software Development Kit*, which refers to a collection of software development tools in one installable package.

   URI
      An acronym for the term *Uniform Resource Identifier*, which is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies.
      For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier.

   UUID
      An acronym for the term *Universally Unique IDentifier*, which is a 128-bit label used for information in computer systems.
      When generated according to the standard methods, UUIDs are, for practical purposes, unique.
      For more information, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier.

   YAML
      An acronym for the term *YAML Ain't Markup Language*.
      YAML is a human friendly data serialization standard for all programming languages.
      For more information, see https://yaml.org.