Add rough Terminology section

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their libraries.
## Terminology
- **Field** — A singular String value within a row.
- **Row** (or **Record**) — A collection of fields.
- **Column** — Fields from multiple rows at the same offset. For example the
second column would be a list of the second field from every row.
- **Delimiter** — The character used to separate fields withing a
row. Commonly this will be a comma (`,`), but semi-colons (`;`) or tabs
(`\t`) are two other popular delimiter characters.
- **Header** — The first row is often used to contain the column names for all
remaining rows. Header names would be used as key names during when CSV data
is converted to JSON for example.
## License
(The MIT license)