| construction commitment | A maintained ME.7 requirement, component decision, operation declaration, or obtaining-relation claim about the Method under construction. | It is not a sentence in a later description merely because the sentence refers to it. |
| MethodDescription claim | A claim in one ME.8 edition for a named use, including coverage, omission, correspondence, evidence limit, or stop. | Description agreement does not admit a Method or establish that Work occurred. |
| Method representation profile | An ME.9 result for several unlike Method-related actions. It contains one complete C.37-bearing row per action and a separate cross-use result naming the shared Method source, correspondences, conflicting omissions, edition relations, keep-separate decisions, and changes that reopen several rows. | It does not select a representation for an arbitrary entity, make row colocation a composition result, or establish view, mathematical-lens, publication, or structure conformance by itself. |
| support claim | One ME.10 task, configuration, A.22 proposal or selection position, collection, membership, edition, publication, direct-relation, test, or reliance claim. | A repository or successful tool task cannot repair a contradiction in another maintained result by being convenient. |
| trial evidence | ME.11 occurrence-level observations and gaps qualified for a named later use. | An observation can bear on a claim. Any correction belongs in the maintained result that owns that claim. |
| coherence finding | A bounded agreement, contradiction, missing-information, failed-declared-conformance, or currentness result about one named claim. | “The Method is coherent” is too broad unless every claim relied on and its qualification window are actually in scope. |
| maintained owner | The result whose claim must change if the finding is sustained: ME.7, ME.8, ME.9, one exact ME.10 result, or another named governor. | The file that displays a claim is not necessarily its owner. |
| declared conformance | A conformance claim with its named scheme, criteria, represented entity, use, and qualification window. | Passing description-side conformance does not establish Method fit, Work performance, or worth. |