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## Terminology
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- **Field** — A singular String value within a row.
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- **Record** (or **Row**) — A collection of fields.
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- **Column** — Fields from multiple rows at the same offset. For example the
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second column would be a list of the second field from every row.
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- **Field** — A singular String value within a record.
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- **Record** (or **Row**) — A collection of fields. This is often referred to
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as a "line", but a single record can in span multiple text lines if a field
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within it contains one or more line breaks.
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- **Delimiter** — The character used to separate fields withing a
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row. Commonly this will be a comma (`,`), but semi-colons (`;`) or tabs
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(`\t`) are two other popular delimiter characters.
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