| exact subject or case | The incident, patient case, user issue, release candidate, service relation, request, or other subject whose temporal and consequence claims matter. It is not automatically the queue item or record. |
| state claim | A qualified claim about the subject and relevant relations at a stated time or horizon. |
| age | Elapsed time since a defined event for an exact subject under a stated clock and conditions. Age is not urgency, priority, or rank. |
| time remaining | The interval between the current reference time and one relevant horizon under stated assumptions. A deadline alone creates no permission. |
| rate or trend | A relation concerning change per interval or a supported direction across observations. It is not an intervention effect by default. |
| intervention-sensitive temporal claim | A claim that an intervention changes a rate, rhythm, recovery, inertia, or regime. It requires the stronger discipline of C.27. |
| urgency | A decision-relative judgement that delay can change a named consequence, commitment, risk, recoverability, or supported use. It is not a durable kind or scalar by default. |
| priority | A current relation used for one coordination decision. It may inform but does not automatically equal queue position, admission order, clinical triage, economic value, authority, or service promise. |
| queue rank | A position under one queue policy and unit definition. It is not the universal expression of priority and can remain outside this pattern. |
| bounded commitment | An existing promise or obligation with parties, result or service, conditions, horizon, authority, and current status. |
| commitment disposition | Preserve, clarify, renegotiate, or withdraw an existing bounded commitment under the applicable authority and conditions. |
| whole-service commitment account | A wider account relating demand, resources, capability, uncertainty, service outcomes, and credible promises. It remains with OPS.13, not OPS.7. |
| priority-and-commitment result | The current priority disposition and reason, changed commitment disposition where authorized, immediate coordination action or blocker, parties, horizon, evidence, and next review. |