Dictionary

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The Dictionary says what a word can mean in a file name, a folder name or a document. Ingence ships 847 senses and 3773 spellings: 14 sections that every project reads (the core) and 8 packs a project may load. A sense is one meaning, such as a technique or a unit; a spelling is one way a filesystem writes it. The Dictionary decides nothing on its own: a rule decides whether a word means that here, and a person’s own answers always outrank it.

104 spellings belong to more than one sense. They are listed together.

Core sections

Section	Senses	Spellings	What it holds
Connecting words	17	18	The small words that join others in a name, known so that they are never asked about.
File roles	33	184	The purpose a file serves, independent of its format.
Filesystem noise	8	50	Files created by tools rather than by people.
Formats	70	212	File formats named by the extension a filesystem carries.
Instruments	22	118	Kinds of laboratory and computing hardware, without vendor specifics.
Negative lexicon	39	259	Words signalling doubt, obsolescence, breakage or throwaway status.
Process	75	357	Pipeline stages, transformations, run status and organising units.
Program layouts	0	0	Packaging conventions by which a package or an environment is recognised from its folder.
Quality marks	2	4	Words a person writes to mark work as having come out well; read from names only.
Reagents	3	3	Universal reagents, each its own sense, admitted one by one on a person’s word.
Statistics	75	305	Descriptive statistics, tests, models and evaluation measures.
Time and versions	44	115	Date idioms, version markers and the words people use for “again”.
Units	123	355	SI and common non-SI units, with the conversions that make them comparable.
Word endings	0	0	Endings that make one new word of the capitals they are glued to, so the two are never divided.

Packs

A pack is the vocabulary of one field. A project loads the packs it names, and the engine proposes others from what it finds.

Pack	Version	Senses	Spellings	What it holds
Biochemistry	3	121	525	Wet-laboratory techniques, reagent classes, cell culture and genetics.
Clinical	2	18	156	Study design, specimens, imaging modalities, and identifier vocabulary.
Computational	2	27	186	Simulation, numerical methods, scheduling and scientific file formats.
Electrophysiology	2	19	142	Recording configurations, protocols, measured quantities and formats.
Microscopy	3	80	454	Imaging modalities, optical configuration, labels and image processing.
Programs	1	1	1	Named scientific suites, recognised by the parts their installations hold side by side.
Sequencing	2	48	270	Library types, platforms, read structure, processing steps and measures.
Spectrometry	3	22	162	Mass spectrometry, optical and magnetic spectroscopy, and their measures.

Kinds of thing

Every sense belongs to one kind, its theme kind: the axis a meaning sits on.

Kind	Senses
acquisition	10
channel	2
condition	16
connective	17
count	1
culture	5
dataset	1
date	24
experiment	2
file_role	35
format	106
identifier	3
instrument	26
measurement	13
part	2
position	1
process	10
project	1
quality	50
quantifier	1
read_structure	10
reagent	48
replicate	7
sample	4
session	1
software	10
stage	35
statistic	85
status	7
subject	46
technique	128
timepoint	2
unit	123
version	12
vessel	3