Glossary

AIAA

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics See: AIAA web site

API

Stands for Application Programming Interface, it is a set of functions, constants, requirements written in a specific programming language for application developers.

CGNS/MLL

The Mid-Level Library (MLL) is an example implementation of the CGNS/HDF5 mapping. See: CGNS/MLL - C and Fortran APIs for Applications.

CGNS/HDF5

A CGNS/SIDS implementation on HDF5.

CGNS/SIDS

The Standard Interface Data Specification is the main part of the CGNS standard: the data model.

Python

Programming language, widely used for web tools. See Python reference site.

ReST

The Restructured Text syntax is a simple documentation syntax. It makes the work of writers easier by delegating most of the rendering commands and options to generators such as Sphinx.

Sphinx

A tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation. It was originally created for the Python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. See Sphinx reference site.