> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://taiger.gitbook.io/omnitive-search/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://taiger.gitbook.io/omnitive-search/faq/glossary.md).

# Glossary

### A - D

| Term             | Definition                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Autocomplete     | A feature where Omnitive Search completes rest of the word that the user is typing.                                                                                                                                                         |
| Class            | A class is a set or collection of individuals or objects.                                                                                                                                                                                   |
| Connectors       | Connectors perform transfer of control and data among components. They can also provide services, such as persistence, invocation, messaging and transactions, that are largely independent of the interacting components’ functionalities. |
| Crawl / Crawling | Scouring the Internet for content, looking over the code/content for each URL they find.                                                                                                                                                    |

### E - K

| Term             | Definition                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Entities         | Entities represents an object or a thing.                                                                                                                                      |
| Filter           | A feature that allows the most relevant search results to be displayed but limiting the non-relevant results.                                                                  |
| Index / Indexing | Store and organise the content found during the crawling process. Once a page is in the index, it’s in the running to be displayed as a result to relevant queries.            |
| Individuals      | The individuals  may include concrete objects such as people, animals, tables, automobiles, molecules, and planets, as well as abstract individuals such as numbers and words. |
| Ingest           | Transportation of data from assorted sources to a storage medium where it can be accessed, used, and analysed by an organisation.                                              |
| Keyword Search   | A Keyword search looks for words anywhere in the record.                                                                                                                       |
| Knowledge Graph  | A knowledge base that uses a graph-structured data model or topology to integrate data.                                                                                        |

### L - R

| Term             | Definition                                                                                                                                           |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Metadata         | A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.                                                                                 |
| Ontology Manager | A way of showing the properties of a subject area and how they are related, by defining a set of concepts and categories that represent the subject. |
| Postprocess      | Postprocess is to process after other processes have been completed.                                                                                 |
| Ranking          | Provide the pieces of content that will best answer a searcher's query, which means that results are ordered by most relevant to least relevant.     |
| Relevance        | The extent to which data answers of gives insight into the question of the individual user.                                                          |

### S - Z

| Term             | Definition                                                                                                             |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Search Bar       | Search Bar is the location to type what you would like to search on the Search Home Page.                              |
| Search Dashboard | Omnitive Search Dashboard is the main page that appears after clicking on `Omnitive Search` in the Omnitive Dashboard. |
| Sort Order       | Sort Order is a process of arranging items systematically in a sequence ordered by some criterion.                     |
| Trending Topics  | A trending topic is a subject that experiences a surge in popularity for a limited duration of time.                   |