name: dbt Cloud Vocabulary
description: >-
  Shared vocabulary of terms used across dbt Cloud's Administrative,
  Discovery, and Semantic Layer APIs.
terms:
  - term: Account
    definition: A dbt Cloud tenant that groups projects, users, and billing.
  - term: Project
    definition: A configured dbt project linked to a Git repository and warehouse.
  - term: Environment
    definition: >-
      A named runtime configuration (development, staging, production) that
      pairs a dbt version with warehouse credentials.
  - term: Job
    definition: A scheduled or triggered set of dbt commands to run in an environment.
  - term: Run
    definition: A single execution of a job, with status, logs, and artifacts.
  - term: Artifact
    definition: >-
      An output of a dbt run such as manifest.json, catalog.json, or
      run_results.json that describes models and execution results.
  - term: Model
    definition: A SELECT statement materialized as a table or view in a warehouse.
  - term: Source
    definition: A reference to a raw table loaded into the warehouse by another tool.
  - term: Metric
    definition: >-
      A reusable, governed business measure defined with MetricFlow and
      queried through the Semantic Layer.
  - term: Dimension
    definition: An attribute of a metric that allows slicing and grouping.
  - term: DAG
    definition: The directed acyclic graph of model dependencies in a dbt project.