| Term |
Working Definition |
| Ambiguity | (When a word/phrase can be interpreted in different ways. "Not to be confused with vagueness". Lexical, referential and syntactical.) |
| Calibrate | (To make corrections in; adjust.) |
| chaos | (unpredictable and seemingly random behavior occurring in a system that sshould be governed by deterrministic laws. In such systems the equations that describe the way the system changes with time are non-linear and involve several variables. consequently, they are very sensitive to the initial conditions such that a very small initial difference may make enormous changes to the future state of the system. ) |
| Consciousness | (A sense of one's personal or collective identity, especially the complex of attitudes, beliefs, and sensitivities held by or considered characteristic of an individual or a group.) |
| Curiosity | (A desire to know or learn.) |
| distortion | (the extent to which a system fails to reproduce the characteristics of it's input through it's output. in optics, called abberation.) |
| Energy | (The capacity of a physical system to do work.) |
| entropy | (the measure of the absence of information about a system.
the measure of the unavailability of a system's energy to do work.
) |
| Epistemology | (The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity.) |
| Evolution | (A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form.) |
| exponential | (a function that varies as the power of another quantity.
) |
| extant | (something that exists now, such as a system of communication.) |
| feedback | (the use of part of the output of a system to control it's performance.
positive or negative.) |
| Interlinguistics | (The study of constructed languages, from a historical, applied or theoretical standpoint. This project can be described as an experimental interlinguistic endeavor. ) |
| Interrelate | (To place in or come into mutual relationship.) |
| IPA | (Internation Phonetic Alphabet) |
| Metalinguistics | (The study of the interrelationship between language and other cultural behavior.) |
| Paradigmatic Shift | (An example that serves as pattern or model.) |
| power | (the rate at which work is done or energy is transferred. ) |
| Self Referential | (Referring to oneself or itself.) |
| symbiosis | (an interaction betweeen individuals of different types usually restricted to where both types benefit. in an obligatory case, niether type could survive without the other.
) |
| Tool | (A device, such as a saw, used to perform or facilitate manual or mechanical work.) |
