2026-09-06 18:15:41
Anonymous:
Glossary: Design Document r6's Appendix A defines the same two cables twice, once as 'power line / signal line' and once as 'signal cable / power cable', and the body uses both about equally - a reader meeting both will think there are four conductors. Both recorded, neither chosen; flagged for the lead designer. Rename table updated: this one is no longer a rename, it is two live names.
hold the flood/glossary.md ..
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| **Deposit** | A marked pile of salvage in the district. | Design r4 |
| **Tally board** | The previous crew's board, in the pump hall. Part of the motive, not a mechanic. | Design r4 |
| **Valve / pump** | District machinery: a valve joins channels and so extends where current reaches; a pump drains one and cuts it. | Design r4 |
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| **Signal cable / power cable** | The thin and thick cables that leave each panel position side by side; the relay's pulse is seen travelling the thin one. | Design Document r3, App. A |
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| **Signal cable / power cable** *(also called* **power line / signal line** *)* | The thin and thick cables that leave each panel position side by side; the relay's pulse is seen travelling the thin one. **Design Document r6's Appendix A defines this pair twice, under both names** — *"power line / signal line: the two lines the panel switches; power lights and opens things, signal carries the dispatch pulse"* — and the body uses both wordings about equally. They appear to be the same two conductors, but a reader meeting both entries will reasonably conclude there are four. **The editor has not chosen between them; this is for the lead designer.** | Design Document r6, App. A (both entries) |
| **Field pump** | A pump fuelled by one bundle that drains one channel, for one expedition only. | Design Document, App. A |
## Gear and the rack
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| **power line / signal line** (r1–r2) | **Signal cable / power cable** | Renamed r3 |
| **gate / hatch** as one branch-door pair (r2) | **Hatch** and **gate** separately | r3 puts the gate on the junction platform, on a circuit the panel never reaches |
| **ledge** (r2): a raised dry shelter, one mid-causeway, one on the yard bank | — **withdrawn** | r3 drops the term; the **junction platform** is the mid-district shelter |
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| **power line / signal line** (r1–r2) → *signal cable / power cable* (r3) → **both, in the same appendix** (r6) | *unresolved* | Not a rename any more — r6 carries both entries at once. See the row above |
**For the lead designer:** this is not a complaint about revising — it is fast, and the churn is the cost
of moving fast. But a term renamed and reverted inside ten minutes, with no note either time, is
