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## Parts and Terminology

Before proceeding to the rest of the manual please take a moment to familiarize yourself with Understand for Ada's parts and terminology. Doing so will make reading the manual more helpful and also put you on the same sheet of music as the technical support team should you have to email or call.

### Parts

Below are the main parts of the Understand for Ada graphical user interface (GUI):

### Terminology

Entity -an Understand for Ada "entity" is anything it has information about. In practice this means anything declared or used in your source code and the files that contain the project.

Relationship - a particular way that entities relate to one another. The names of relationships draw from the syntax and semantics of Ada. For instance entities that are packages can have "With" relationships or "WithBy" relationships.

Project - the set of source code you have analyzed and the settings and parameters chosen. A "project file" contains the list of source files and project settings.

Ada - either Ada 83 or Ada 95. All statements in this manual apply equally to Ada 83 and Ada 95 unless otherwise noted.

Database - where the results of the source code parsing, as well as project settings, are stored.

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