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## Terminology
- **Field** — A singular String value within a row.
- **Record** (or **Row**) — 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.
- **Field** — A singular String value within a record.
- **Record** (or **Row**) — A collection of fields. This is often referred to
as a "line", but a single record can in span multiple text lines if a field
within it contains one or more line breaks.
- **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.