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Welcome to SEVOCAB: Software and Systems Engineering Vocabulary

Find authoritative definitions for software and systems engineering terms in SEVOCAB.
A project of the IEEE Computer Society and ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC7, SEVOCAB includes definitions
from international standards. You can search for a term as defined in the standards,
or for all the definitions in a source standard. To give you an understanding of related
concepts, SEVOCAB will return any definition for the term, as well as all the definitions
that use the term.

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