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title: "Glossary"
canonical: https://syncek.com/docs/get-started/glossary
locale: en
author: "Syncek"
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# Glossary

Syncek uses eight words for the things you work with: organization, workspace,
member, object, record, attribute, list and view. They run from the biggest
container down to the smallest, so reading them in that order gives you the whole
data model in one pass.

## The words

- **Organization**. Your company's account, holding your workspaces and people.
- **Workspace**. One team's space inside the organization.
- **Member**. A person with access to a workspace or to the organization. See [Roles and permissions](https://syncek.com/docs/get-started/roles-and-permissions).
- **Object**. A kind of thing you track, like Contacts or Accounts. See [Objects and records](https://syncek.com/docs/core-concepts/objects-and-records).
- **Record**. One entry of an object. A customer is a record of Accounts.
- **Attribute**. A field on a record: a name, a type and a value. See [Attributes](https://syncek.com/docs/core-concepts/attributes).
- **List**. A saved subset of one object's records. See [Lists](https://syncek.com/docs/your-data/lists).
- **View**. A saved way of looking at an object, as a table or as a [board](https://syncek.com/docs/views/board-view). See [Saved views](https://syncek.com/docs/views/saved-views).

How these fit together is in [How Syncek organizes your data](https://syncek.com/docs/core-concepts/data-model).