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Gramps Glossary

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:* A list of alternative names for the place
:* A list of regions which enclose the place
 
;<span id="posix">POSIX</span>: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix Portable Operating System Interface]: a family of OS standards specified by the [https://wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Computer_Society IEEE] Computer Society for maintaining compatibility with variants of Unix (such as Linux) and other operating systems. Although the MacOS is "POSIX-certified", the term is used in this manual to generically refer to just the "Mostly POSIX-compliant" Linux and BSD distributions [[Download#Linux_and_BSD_distributions|with verified Gramps downloads]] and which use the POSIX-style [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard environment].
;<span id="primary_object">primary object</span>: Primary objects are the top level objects. They contain a hierarchy of [[#secondary_object|secondary objects]], and can be referenced by other primary or secondary objects. In the Gramps database, primary objects and the secondary objects that they contain are stored as separate records. Each primary object type is stored in a separate table. See [[Using_database_API#Primary_Objects|Using database API, Primary Objects]] (see also ''[[#secondary_object|secondary object]]'')
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