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Q&A Giving something an alias

Within a technical document I want to refer to a system or process by a shorter name. I have no idea what this process is called so searching the internet is not getting me anywhere. Is this corre...

1 answer  ·  posted 12y ago by DigitalNomad‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T02:23:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/5724
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar DigitalNomad‭ · 2019-12-08T02:23:15Z (almost 5 years ago)
Within a technical document I want to refer to a system or process by a shorter name. I have no idea what this process is called so searching the internet is not getting me anywhere.

Is this correct?

> The Core Distribution Engine (engine) is the main module of the Distribution Hub system.

After that sentence I can simply refer to the Core Distribution Engine as engine?

What is this process called?

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2012-05-21T14:53:47Z (over 12 years ago)
Original score: 0