Section 13 of 103
12. Preferred, Admitted, Deprecated, Prohibited and Reserved Terms
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Each controlled term may be assigned one of the following statuses:
Preferred Term: The canonical term required for new normative documents, schemas, registries, and formal engineering communication.
Admitted Term: An acceptable alternative permitted within a declared context and mapped to the preferred term.
Deprecated Term: A legacy term retained for backward compatibility or historical interpretation but not permitted for new normative use.
Prohibited Term: A term that shall not be used within the declared scope because it is misleading, ambiguous, conflicting, unsafe, or semantically incorrect.
Reserved Term: A term withheld for a specific existing or future meaning and unavailable for unrelated use.
A change in term status shall be versioned and accompanied by transition guidance where existing documents, data, products, or software may be affected.
Deprecated terms shall remain searchable and traceable to their preferred replacements. Prohibited terms may be retained in historical records but shall be clearly marked and shall not be presented as current terminology.