Ubiquitous
ubiquitous languageDefinitions
Present everywhere — a language, a runtime, a pattern that can be assumed on any platform without checking
JavaScript in the browser, JSON over the wire, Markdown for prose. The word for a dependency so universal it has stopped being a choice.
Ubiquitous language: one vocabulary, shared by the people who build a thing and the people who use it, used the same way in conversation, in documents, and in code
Evans' term from domain-driven design. A glossary is the ubiquitous language written down; a term with two meanings across teams is a defect in it, and this glossary's multiple definitions per entry are the record of those defects being worked.
Everywhere, in the same sense. The technical meaning is a fact about reach; the design-system meaning is a discipline — that the word means one thing whether it is said in a standup, written in a spec, or typed as an identifier. This glossary exists to make the second true.