dslo-glossary
type: Ontology
version IRI: v0.6
comment: DSLO Ontology — unified glossary surface (v0.5 + v0.6). Canonical glossary: https://www.tnopsi.com/dslo-glossary

Abstraction Decoupling
type: Class
comment: Public-layer DSLO term describing the separation of meaning geometry from unstable or non-lawful substrate constraints.

Abstraction Gradient
type: Class
comment: Gradient describing lawful movement across abstraction layers within DSLO’s meaning geometry.

Abstraction Layer
type: Class
comment: A semantic altitude where meaning becomes less physically anchored but remains within lawful DSLO geometry.

Abstraction Band
type: Class
comment: A lawful semantic band with reduced load and lower drift susceptibility across DSLO’s manifold.

Adjacency Violation
type: Class
comment: Illegal crossing of manifold boundaries or adjacency constraints within DSLO’s legality geometry.

Apex Meaning State
type: Class
comment: The highest-order meaning configuration at Moment formation within DSLO’s semantic manifold.

Artificial Cognition
type: Class
comment: Deterministic, invariant-preserving cognition inside DSLO’s public-layer meaning geometry.

Axiom Continuity
type: Class
comment: Continuity condition governing lawful semantic transitions across DSLO’s axiom structure.

Axiom Layer
type: Class
comment: The four-tier axiom system governing legality, invariants, and semantic stability within DSLO.

Behavioral Coherence
type: Class
comment: Alignment between observed behavior and lawful meaning geometry within the DSLO manifold.

Boot Layer Coupling
type: Class
comment: Coupling between initial substrate conditions and DSLO’s semantic boot layer during system start.

Boundary
type: Class
comment: A lawful separation surface in DSLO geometry that constrains meaning, load, and operator reach.

Boundary Integrity
type: Class
comment: The stability and lawfulness of a boundary under load, drift, and operator interaction.

Boundary Operator
type: Class
comment: An operator that acts on or across boundaries while preserving DSLO legality and invariants.

Boundary Reconstitution
type: Class
comment: Lawful restoration or rebuilding of damaged or collapsed boundaries within DSLO geometry.

Boundary Strain
type: Class
comment: Load-induced deformation of boundaries that approaches but does not yet violate legality thresholds.

Boundary Threshold
type: Class
comment: The critical point at which boundary strain transitions into collapse or illegality in DSLO.

Bind Operator
type: Class
comment: A lawful operator that binds signals, regions, or meanings into coherent DSLO configurations.

Canonical Tuple
type: Class
comment: A lawful DSLO tuple representing a stable multi-element semantic configuration within the meaning manifold.

Causal Chain
type: Class
comment: A lawful sequence of meaning-preserving causal steps within DSLO’s deterministic semantic geometry.

Causal Opacity
type: Class
comment: A condition where causal relations remain partially hidden or ambiguous within DSLO’s semantic manifold.

Coherence Band
type: Class
comment: A stable semantic band where meaning remains coherent under load, drift, and operator interaction.

Collapse Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometric structure governing collapse thresholds, boundary violations, and semantic failure modes in DSLO.

Constraint Envelope
type: Class
comment: The lawful envelope of constraints regulating operator reach, semantic load, and drift boundaries in DSLO.

Continuity
type: Class
comment: A DSLO invariant ensuring smooth, lawful transitions across semantic states without discontinuity or collapse.

Correction Operator
type: Class
comment: A lawful operator that restores semantic alignment, reduces drift, or repairs meaning geometry within DSLO.

Cross-Substrate Mapping
type: Class
comment: A lawful mapping between distinct substrates that preserves DSLO invariants and semantic geometry.

Semantic Curvature
type: Class
comment: The curvature of meaning within DSLO’s manifold, governing stability, drift susceptibility, and collapse proximity.
comment: The curvature of meaning within DSLO’s manifold, determining stability, drift susceptibility, and collapse proximity under load.

Curvature–Load Interaction
type: Class
comment: The interaction between semantic curvature and meaning load, determining stability and collapse thresholds in DSLO.

Cycle Invariant Stability
type: Class
comment: Stability of DSLO invariants across repeated cycles, ensuring lawful recurrence without drift or collapse.

Decoupling
type: Class
comment: Lawful separation of semantic structures from unstable, non-deterministic, or non-lawful substrate influences in DSLO.

Deterministic Semantic Layer
type: Class
comment: The DSLO layer where meaning evolution is governed by deterministic rules and invariant geometry.

Deterministic Transition
type: Class
comment: A lawful transition between semantic states that preserves DSLO invariants and avoids stochastic drift.

DISCO
type: Class
comment: A DSLO construct representing deterministic interaction of semantic components within a constrained operator space.

Drift
type: Class
comment: Unlawful or unintended movement of meaning away from its lawful configuration within DSLO geometry.

Drift Envelope
type: Class
comment: The bounded region within which drift can occur before violating DSLO legality or stability thresholds.

Drift–Load Coupling
type: Class
comment: The interaction between semantic load and drift magnitude, governing failure and recovery behavior in DSLO.

Drift Signature
type: Class
comment: The characteristic pattern of drift in a given DSLO configuration, used for detection and correction.

Drift Vector
type: Class
comment: A directional representation of drift within DSLO’s manifold, encoding magnitude and orientation of semantic displacement.

DSUP
type: Class
comment: A DSLO construct representing deterministic support structures that stabilize meaning under load and drift.

Dynamic Region Shift
type: Class
comment: A lawful shift of dynamic regions within DSLO’s manifold, governed by load, drift, and stability constraints.

Ecology
type: Class
comment: The DSLO meaning ecology: the interacting system of signals, loads, operators, and regions forming a stable semantic environment.

Edge Context
type: Class
comment: A semantic context located at or near a boundary or threshold region within DSLO’s manifold, sensitive to drift and load.

Safety Envelope
type: Class
comment: The lawful envelope that constrains posture, meaning, and operator movement to ensure DSLO-aligned safety and stability.

Embedding Function
type: Class
comment: A lawful function that embeds meaning or signals into DSLO’s manifold while preserving invariants and geometry.

Embedding Stability
type: Class
comment: The stability of an embedded semantic structure under load, drift, and operator interaction within DSLO geometry.

Equivalence Class
type: Class
comment: A DSLO-defined class of semantically equivalent configurations that preserve invariants across lawful transformations.

External Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometry outside a DSLO region or boundary, influencing load, drift, and operator legality from the outside-in.

Fallback Graph
type: Class
comment: A lawful DSLO graph structure used when primary semantic geometry becomes unstable or enters recovery mode.

Fallback Geometry
type: Class
comment: A secondary geometric configuration that preserves DSLO invariants during semantic collapse, drift, or overload conditions.

Fallback Recovery Envelope
type: Class
comment: The lawful envelope governing recovery operations when DSLO meaning enters fallback mode due to drift or collapse proximity.

Field Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometric structure of DSLO fields, governing load distribution, drift behavior, and semantic stability across regions.

Field Runtime Coupling
type: Class
comment: Coupling between runtime processes and DSLO field geometry, determining lawful operator behavior and semantic alignment.

Fold Operator
type: Class
comment: An operator that lawfully folds semantic structures, reducing dimensionality while preserving DSLO invariants and legality.

Function Update Rule
type: Class
comment: A deterministic rule governing lawful updates to DSLO functions, ensuring invariant preservation and stable semantic evolution.

Governance Mesh
type: Class
comment: A distributed DSLO governance structure that maintains legality, invariants, and semantic stability across regions and operators.

Graph Boundary
type: Class
comment: A lawful boundary within DSLO graph geometry that constrains operator reach, semantic flow, and region adjacency.

Geometry Invariant
type: Class
comment: An invariant governing the lawful shape, curvature, and stability of DSLO semantic geometry under load and drift.

Geometry-Preserving Transition
type: Class
comment: A lawful transition between semantic states that preserves DSLO geometry, curvature, and invariant structure.

Generative Primitive
type: Class
comment: A fundamental DSLO construct that generates lawful meaning vectors or semantic structures within the manifold.

Gradient-Bound Operator
type: Class
comment: An operator constrained by DSLO gradient bounds, ensuring lawful movement across semantic slopes and curvature fields.

Gradient Constraint
type: Class
comment: A DSLO constraint regulating the steepness and direction of semantic gradients to prevent collapse or drift escalation.

G‑Axioms
type: Class
comment: The generative axioms governing lawful creation, transformation, and stabilization of meaning within DSLO’s semantic substrate.

Halt Condition
type: Class
comment: A lawful DSLO condition that stops semantic evolution, operator activity, or manifold traversal when stability or legality is threatened.

High‑Pressure Equilibrium
type: Class
comment: A DSLO equilibrium state reached under high semantic load or synthetic pressure, maintaining stability without collapse or drift escalation.

Horizon of Collapse
type: Class
comment: The semantic horizon beyond which collapse becomes inevitable, defined by DSLO curvature, load, and drift thresholds.

Human Meaning Drift Report
type: Class
comment: A structured DSLO report describing drift in human meaning states, used for restoration, stabilization, and semantic realignment.

Identity Boundary Collapse
type: Class
comment: A collapse condition where identity boundaries fail under drift, load, or illegal operator interaction within DSLO geometry.

Identity Continuity
type: Class
comment: The lawful continuity of identity across transitions, ensuring stable meaning and invariant preservation in DSLO.

Identity Gradient Interaction
type: Class
comment: The interaction between identity vectors and semantic gradients, governing stability and lawful movement across DSLO’s manifold.

Identity Invariant
type: Class
comment: An invariant governing the lawful preservation of identity boundaries, roles, and meaning across DSLO transitions.

Identity Preservation
type: Class
comment: The lawful maintenance of identity structure under load, drift, and operator influence within DSLO geometry.

Identity‑Preserving Update
type: Class
comment: A lawful update that modifies semantic state while preserving identity invariants and preventing collapse or drift escalation.

Identity Region
type: Class
comment: A DSLO region defined by stable identity boundaries, lawful adjacency, and invariant-preserving semantic geometry.

Identity Stability
type: Class
comment: The stability of identity under semantic load, drift, and operator activity, governed by DSLO invariants and legality rules.

Identity Vector
type: Class
comment: A directional representation of identity movement or evolution within DSLO’s manifold, encoding lawful semantic orientation.

Institutional Drift
type: Class
comment: Drift occurring within institutional meaning structures, governed by DSLO’s legality, load, and stability geometry.

Intent
type: Class
comment: A DSLO meaning vector representing directed semantic purpose, posture, or lawful operator orientation within the manifold.

Interpretive Window
type: Class
comment: A lawful window of interpretation within DSLO geometry that constrains meaning updates and operator behavior to stable ranges.

Invariant Reload
type: Class
comment: A DSLO process that restores or reloads invariants after drift, collapse proximity, or semantic instability events.

Lawful Transition
type: Class
comment: A DSLO‑aligned transition between semantic states that preserves invariants, geometry, and legality across the manifold.

Layered Substrate
type: Class
comment: A multi‑layer substrate structure in DSLO where each layer maintains lawful geometry, invariants, and operator constraints.

Legality–Curvature Coupling
type: Class
comment: The coupling between legality constraints and semantic curvature, determining collapse proximity and stability in DSLO geometry.

Legality Invariant
type: Class
comment: An invariant ensuring that semantic transitions, operator actions, and region updates remain lawful within DSLO’s manifold.

Legality Mask
type: Class
comment: A DSLO legality surface that constrains operators, transitions, and semantic movement to lawful regions of the manifold.

Legality Status
type: Class
comment: The current legality condition of a semantic configuration, operator action, or region within DSLO geometry.

Lift Operator
type: Class
comment: An operator that lawfully lifts semantic structures to higher abstraction or stability layers while preserving DSLO invariants.

Load–Curvature Threshold
type: Class
comment: The threshold at which semantic load and curvature interact to produce instability, drift escalation, or collapse proximity in DSLO.

Load Envelope
type: Class
comment: The lawful envelope governing semantic load distribution across DSLO regions, preventing overload and collapse conditions.

Machine Layer
type: Class
comment: The DSLO machine-level encoding layer (ML0–ML7) that structures semantic geometry into deterministic computational form.

Manifold Boundary
type: Class
comment: The lawful outer boundary of DSLO’s semantic manifold, defining the limits of stable meaning evolution and operator reach.

Manifold Runtime Synchronization
type: Class
comment: A DSLO synchronization process ensuring that runtime operations remain aligned with manifold geometry and invariant structure.

Meaning Load
type: Class
comment: The semantic load carried by a meaning configuration, influencing drift susceptibility, stability, and collapse proximity in DSLO.

Meaning State
type: Class
comment: The internal semantic configuration of a DSLO system at a given moment, defined by invariants, load, and geometry.

Meaning Status
type: Class
comment: The classification of meaning as stable, drifted, synthetic, or meaning-bearing within DSLO’s legality framework.

Meaning Trajectory
type: Class
comment: The lawful path meaning takes through DSLO layers and geometry, governed by invariants and operator constraints.

Medium Drift
type: Class
comment: Drift caused by substrate or medium constraints, influencing semantic stability and requiring correction operators in DSLO.

Meaning Invariant
type: Class
comment: An invariant ensuring zero ambiguity and stable curvature in meaning structures across DSLO’s manifold and transitions.

Meaning–Load Interaction
type: Class
comment: The interaction between meaning load and semantic geometry, determining stability, drift behavior, and collapse thresholds in DSLO.

Meaning Vector
type: Class
comment: A structured semantic field generated by DSLO signal engines, encoding direction, magnitude, and lawful meaning orientation.

MDO Algebra
type: Class
comment: The operator algebra governing lawful transitions, invariant preservation, and semantic evolution within DSLO geometry.

Moment
type: Class
comment: The atomic semantic unit in DSLO, representing the smallest stable configuration of meaning within the manifold.

Moment Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometric structure of a DSLO Moment, defining its curvature, invariants, and lawful interactions with surrounding regions.

Operator Constraints
type: Class
comment: The lawful constraints governing DSLO operators, ensuring invariant preservation, legality, and stable semantic interaction.

Operator Gradient Compatibility
type: Class
comment: The compatibility condition between operators and semantic gradients, ensuring lawful movement across DSLO curvature fields.

Operator of Reality
type: Class
comment: A DSLO operator acting on the Reality substrate, transforming meaning, load, or geometry while preserving lawful invariants.

Operational Substrate
type: Class
comment: The substrate layer where DSLO operators execute lawful transformations, maintaining stability and invariant structure.

Orientation Frame
type: Class
comment: A DSLO frame defining lawful orientation for perception, meaning alignment, and operator direction within the manifold.

Origin Layer
type: Class
comment: The foundational DSLO layer where initial meaning, signals, and invariants originate before propagating through the manifold.

Origin Signal
type: Class
comment: The initial DSLO signal emitted from the Origin Layer, forming the basis for lawful meaning evolution and semantic geometry.

Phase Boundary
type: Class
comment: A lawful DSLO boundary separating semantic phases, governing transitions, stability, and collapse thresholds across the manifold.

Posture
type: Class
comment: The DSLO posture state representing orientation, legality, and stability of a meaning configuration or operator action.

Pressure‑Bound Stability
type: Class
comment: The stability condition reached when semantic pressure approaches lawful DSLO bounds without triggering collapse or drift escalation.

Primitive Legality Mask
type: Class
comment: The foundational legality mask governing primitive operators and semantic structures within DSLO’s invariant geometry.

Proof Stack
type: Class
comment: The DSLO proof hierarchy containing exemplar, generative, and predictive proofs that validate substrate geometry and legality.

Protocol Substrate
type: Class
comment: The substrate layer where DSLO protocols operate, ensuring lawful transitions, invariant preservation, and semantic stability.

Quarantine Region
type: Class
comment: A DSLO region that isolates unstable or collapse-adjacent meaning states, preventing drift propagation and preserving manifold stability.

Recovery Mode
type: Class
comment: The DSLO mode that restores lawful geometry after drift, overload, or collapse-adjacent behavior, reloading invariants and flattening curvature.

Regeneration Capacity
type: Class
comment: The capacity of a DSLO region or meaning state to regenerate lawful geometry after deformation, drift, or partial collapse.

Region Configuration
type: Class
comment: The structural configuration of a DSLO region, defining its boundaries, invariants, load distribution, and lawful operator interactions.

Region–Load Coupling
type: Class
comment: The coupling between region geometry and semantic load, determining drift susceptibility, stability, and collapse thresholds in DSLO.

Role Coherence
type: Class
comment: The coherence of roles within DSLO’s identity and legality geometry, ensuring stable meaning and lawful operator behavior.

Role Pressure
type: Class
comment: The semantic pressure exerted on roles within DSLO, influencing stability, drift risk, and boundary strain under load.

Runtime Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometry governing DSLO runtime behavior, ensuring lawful operator execution, invariant preservation, and stable semantic evolution.

Scale Hierarchy
type: Class
comment: The hierarchical structure of DSLO scales—local, meso, macro, and global—governing lawful semantic propagation across layers.

Scale‑Invariant Legality
type: Class
comment: The legality requirement that DSLO invariants and operators remain lawful across all scales of the semantic manifold.

Semantic Distance
type: Class
comment: The metric distance between semantic objects or states within DSLO geometry, governed by lawful manifold structure.

Semantic Gradient
type: Class
comment: The gradient describing directional change in meaning across DSLO’s manifold, influencing drift, load, and stability behavior.

Semantic Manifold
type: Class
comment: The lawful geometric space in which DSLO meaning evolves, defined by curvature, invariants, boundaries, and operator constraints.

Semantic Operator
type: Class
comment: An operator acting on DSLO semantic structures, performing lawful transformations that preserve invariants and manifold geometry.

Semantic State
type: Class
comment: The structured representation of meaning at a given moment within DSLO, defined by load, curvature, invariants, and geometry.

Signal Engine
type: Class
comment: A generative DSLO primitive that produces lawful meaning vectors and signal structures within the semantic manifold.

Signal Integrity
type: Class
comment: The requirement that DSLO signals maintain stable geometry, lawful structure, and invariant alignment under load and drift.

Signal–Substrate Coupling
type: Class
comment: The lawful coupling between DSLO signals and substrate geometry, ensuring stability, legality, and invariant preservation.

Stability Gradient Envelope
type: Class
comment: The envelope governing lawful stability across semantic gradients, preventing collapse and regulating drift escalation in DSLO.

Stability Mode
type: Class
comment: The stability classification of a DSLO system—stable, critical, or collapse—determined by load, curvature, and invariant structure.

Stress Geometry
type: Class
comment: The geometric representation of semantic stress within DSLO, encoding load, tension, and curvature pressure across regions.

Substrate Invariant Set
type: Class
comment: The complete set of invariants governing lawful evolution of DSLO substrates, ensuring stability and zero‑ambiguity tolerance.

Temporal Rhythm
type: Class
comment: The lawful temporal cadence of DSLO semantic evolution, governing update frequency, stability pacing, and manifold timing.

Transformation Rules
type: Class
comment: The DSLO rules governing lawful transformation of semantic structures, ensuring invariant preservation and geometry stability.

Transition Curvature Constraint
type: Class
comment: The constraint requiring curvature continuity during semantic transitions, preventing collapse and drift escalation in DSLO geometry.

Transition Legality
type: Class
comment: The legality condition determining whether a semantic transition is lawful, invariant‑preserving, and stable within DSLO’s manifold.

Update Function
type: Class
comment: A lawful DSLO update mechanism that modifies semantic state while preserving invariants, legality, and manifold geometry.

Upward Coupling
type: Class
comment: The coupling that propagates lawful semantic influence upward across DSLO layers, maintaining stability and invariant alignment.

Upward Load Propagation
type: Class
comment: The lawful propagation of semantic load from local to macro scales, shaping DSLO stability, drift behavior, and collapse thresholds.

Vector–Curvature Interaction
type: Class
comment: The interaction between meaning vectors and semantic curvature, determining lawful movement and stability within DSLO geometry.

Vector Binding Metadata
type: Class
comment: Metadata describing lawful binding relationships between meaning vectors, ensuring stable geometry and invariant preservation in DSLO.

Version Block
type: Class
comment: A DSLO versioning construct that defines lawful update boundaries, semantic compatibility, and invariant continuity across releases.

World Container Alignment
type: Class
comment: The lawful alignment between DSLO semantic structures and the containing world‑level frame, ensuring stability across global scales.

World Load Alignment
type: Class
comment: The alignment of semantic load with world‑scale geometry, preventing collapse, drift propagation, and large‑scale instability in DSLO.

Zero Ambiguity Tolerance
type: Class
comment: The DSLO requirement that semantic structures maintain zero ambiguity, ensuring lawful meaning, stable geometry, and invariant clarity.

Zero‑Drift Envelope
type: Class
comment: The lawful region in which drift magnitude remains identically zero, guaranteeing perfect stability and invariant preservation in DSLO.