---
title: "Glossary"
description: "Every Outpost term, defined once. Partner, client, tenant, endpoint, face, profile, agreement and the rest."
url: "https://support.outpostplatform.com/reference/glossary/"
product: "platform"
type: "reference"
status: "stub"
ai_summary: "Alphabetical glossary of Outpost terminology. Defines each term in one or two sentences, distinguishes the terms that are easily confused with each other, such as partner and client or endpoint and device, and links to the page that explains each in full."
source: "https://gitlab.com/outpostplatform/docs/-/edit/main/src/content/docs/reference/glossary.md"
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Glossary

Outpost uses a small number of words in a specific way, and several of them are
words other products use differently. This page defines each one once, in
alphabetical order, so that every other page can use it without stopping. It is
for anybody reading this documentation, including somebody arriving from another
platform.

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Sections:

- Scope: these are the words this documentation and the console use, and
  where they differ from the same word elsewhere.
- The terms, alphabetically, each defined in one or two sentences and linked
  to the page that explains it in full.
- The pairs readers most often confuse, side by side: partner and client,
  client and tenant, endpoint and device, profile and policy, agreement and
  contract.
- Terms that appear only in provider mode.
- Terms that were used in older versions and what they are called now.
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Follow the [reference template](https://gitlab.com/outpostplatform/docs/-/blob/main/templates/reference.md).