2026-09-06 18:35:21
Anonymous:
Glossary: the duplicate cable definition is resolved. Design Document r8 carries one entry, 'power cable / signal cable', and 'power line / signal line' is gone from the document entirely - so the alias and the flag come off the term and the rename table records it as settled. Reported last pass, fixed by the lead.
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** *(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) |
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| **Power cable / signal cable** | The two cables the panel switches, leaving each position side by side as a thick one and a thin one: power lights and opens things, and the thin signal cable carries the dispatch pulse, which can be seen travelling it. | Design Document r8, App. A |
| **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| **ledge** (r2): a raised dry shelter, one mid-causeway, one on the yard bank | — **withdrawn** | r3 drops the term; the **junction platform** is the mid-district shelter |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 |
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| **power line / signal line** (r1–r2) → *signal cable / power cable* (r3) → **both names at once** (r6) | **Power cable / signal cable** | **Settled at r8.** The duplicate entry is gone and only one name remains; the old wording survives only in revisions r1–r6 |
**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
