Glossary of terms
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.. glossary::

   CIC
      Clock-induced charge. A type of shot noise caused by clocking behavior in CCDs, of more concern when electron-multiplying.
      Also known as "spurious charge". See Janesick's *Scientific Charge-coupled Devices*, 7.1.2.

   RON
      Read-out noise. Noise inherent in the process of converting photoelectrons
      in a pixel to digital counts. Independent of signal level
      dependent on ADC and amplifier electronics and temperature.
      See Howell's *Handbook of CCD Astronomy*, 3.4.

   shmim
      Shared-memory image. The unifying abstraction of CACAO inter-process communication,
      essentially a block of computer memory and a way to coordinate updates with other
      processes in the system.

If a term is missing here, it's up to you to figure out what it means and :doc:`document it<documenting>`!