Glossary

Definitions of terms used in the curriculum.

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Letter M9 terms

Mood Board

  • Features
A collection of reference images you create to serve as a style guide, ensuring new generations share a consistent visual theme.

Motion Engine

  • Features
A feature that adds preset expressive gestures and facial movements to an avatar automatically.

MP3

  • File Types
Audio file format that can be uploaded and turned into searchable text or played back as a podcast.

Multi-Cut Prompting

  • Concepts
  • Prompt Techniques
  • Prompting Techniques
Writing a single prompt that includes the phrase “cut to” to tell the AI to create several shots with transitions in one video.

Also known as: multi-cut prompting

2 other definitions

multi-cut prompting · Prompting Techniques

A way of writing a prompt that tells the AI to create several shots with cuts inside one video generation.

Multi-Cut Prompting · Prompt Techniques

A way to tell the AI to create several shots with internal transitions in a single video by using the phrase “cut to” between scene descriptions.

Multi-step Zap

  • Workflows
A Zap with more than one action chained together (a paid-plan feature).

Multi‑Angle Avatars

  • Features
Three separate personal avatars recorded from different camera positions that can be swapped to change viewpoint within a single video.

Multi‑Cut Prompting

  • Prompt Techniques
A prompting style where you write ‘cut to’ between scene descriptions so Sora creates internal cuts within one video.

Multi‑Voice Narration

  • Features
A page where you can assign different synthetic voices to each line of dialogue in a script.

multimodal

  • Concepts
  • How models are built
  • Core
Able to work with more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, audio and video. A multimodal model can, for example, read a photo of a table and describe it.

Also known as: multimodal model

2 other definitions

multimodal · How models are built

A model that handles more than text — images, audio, sometimes video — not just words.

multimodal · Concepts

Gemini's ability to work with multiple types of content at once — text, images, audio, video, and documents — all in the same conversation.

Letter N21 terms

NameError

  • Concepts
A Python error that fires when your code refers to a variable or function that hasn't been defined yet — usually a typo or a missing assignment.

Namespace

  • Concepts
A Linux feature that gives a container its own separate view of system resources like processes and networking.

namespaces

  • Concepts
Kernel mechanisms that isolate system resources like network, process IDs, and file systems for each container.

Nano Banana

  • Models
  • Tools
The image‑generation model GenSpark uses to create pictures from text descriptions.
1 other definition

Nano Banana · Tools

An AI image model you can call on to generate custom background images for your video.

network port

  • Core
A number that picks out one service on a computer, like an extension on a phone line. In localhost:8080, the port is 8080.

Also known as: port number, TCP port

never

  • Concepts
An approval policy that lets Codex act fully autonomously without asking for permission — it still respects the sandbox limits, but never pauses for human approval.

newgrp

  • Commands
A command that refreshes the current shell’s group memberships without logging out and back in.

NEXT_PUBLIC_

  • Concepts
A required prefix for environment variable names in Next.js when the value needs to be accessible in the browser; without it, the variable is available on the server only.

Node

  • Components
  • Concepts
A single building block inside a Dify workflow — each node does one job (call an LLM, run code, retrieve from a knowledge base, etc.) and passes its result to the next node.

Also known as: node

4 other definitions

Node · Concepts

A single building block on the Flowise canvas — each node performs one job (e.g. call an LLM, search a document, run a tool) and connects to other nodes via edges.

Node · Concepts

A single building block in a KNIME workflow — a colored box that performs one task, such as reading a file, filtering rows, or training a model.

node · Components

A building block inside a workflow diagram that represents one step such as a trigger, an AI agent, or an external action.

Node · Concepts

A single building block in a workflow — each node performs one action, such as sending an email, filtering data, or calling an API.

Node Monitor

  • Features
The bottom panel that shows the output table, statistics, or flow variables produced by a selected node after it has been executed.

Node packages

  • Dependencies
Software libraries installed with the npm command that the plugin needs to work.

Node Repository

  • Features
The searchable panel listing every node available in your KNIME installation; you drag nodes from here onto the workflow canvas.

Node Status

  • Concepts
A traffic-light indicator beneath each node: red means not yet configured, yellow means configured and ready, green means successfully executed.

Node.js

  • Core
A program that runs JavaScript outside the web browser. Many command-line tools and AI coding apps need it installed first.

Also known as: NodeJS, Node JS

None

  • Concepts
Python's built-in value meaning 'nothing' or 'no result'; a function returns None when it has no explicit return value.

Notebook

  • Concepts
  • Features
A dedicated project space in Gemini where you upload sources (PDFs, Drive files, websites, etc.) and have ongoing conversations that always remember your documents and past discussions.
1 other definition

Notebook · Concepts

A self‑contained collection of documents and its own chat thread within Open Notebook.

NotebookLM

  • Concepts
A separate Google AI tool focused on document research; Gemini's Notebook feature is integrated with it, so sources and changes sync automatically between both products.

np.concatenate

  • Functions
A NumPy function that joins several audio arrays end‑to‑end into one longer array.

npm i -g openclaw

  • Commands
A terminal command that downloads and installs the OpenClaw program on your computer so you can run it from anywhere; npm i -g means "install globally via Node Package Manager".

npm install

  • Commands
A standard command that downloads and adds a JavaScript library from the public npm registry into your project so your code can use it.

npm test

  • Concepts
A standard command that runs the automated tests defined for a JavaScript or TypeScript project — if all tests pass, the code behaves as expected.

Letter O10 terms

o3

  • Models
OpenAI's most capable reasoning model available in ChatGPT, designed for difficult problems in coding, mathematics, and science that require extended multi-step thinking before responding.

OAuth

  • Core
A standard way for one app to get limited access to your account in another service without seeing your password. You approve it on a consent screen, and you can withdraw the access later.

Also known as: OAuth 2.0, OAuth2

Ollama

  • Concepts
  • Tools
Software that lets you run local AI models on a machine, often used together with Open WebUI.
1 other definition

Ollama · Concepts

Software that lets you run open‑source large language models, such as Llama 3.1, locally on your computer.

ollama list

  • Commands
Shows all models you have downloaded and stored locally on your machine (the canonical short form of this command is ollama ls).

ollama ps

  • Commands
Lists which models are currently loaded in memory and actively running.

ollama pull

  • Commands
Downloads a model from the Ollama library to your computer without starting a chat session.

ollama rm

  • Commands
Permanently deletes a downloaded model from your computer to free up disk space.

ollama run

  • Commands
Starts an interactive chat session with a model; if the model isn't already downloaded, Ollama downloads it automatically first.

ollama serve

  • Commands
Manually starts the Ollama background server that listens for requests; on most systems this starts automatically at login.

ollama stop

  • Commands
Stops a running model, unloading it from memory without removing it from your computer.