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.. _glossary:
Glossary
========
.. glossary::
builder
A class (inheriting from :class:`~sphinx.builder.Builder`) that takes
parsed documents and performs an action on them. Normally, builders
translate the documents to an output format, but it is also possible to
use the builder builders that e.g. check for broken links in the
documentation, or build coverage information.
See :ref:`builders` for an overview over Sphinx' built-in builders.
description unit
The basic building block of Sphinx documentation. Every "description
directive" (e.g. :dir:`function` or :dir:`describe`) creates such a unit;
and most units can be cross-referenced to.
documentation root
The directory which contains the documentation's :file:`conf.py` file and
is therefore seen as one Sphinx project.
environment
A structure where information about all documents under the root is saved,
and used for cross-referencing. The environment is pickled after the
parsing stage, so that successive runs only need to read and parse new and
changed documents.