Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Don’t be so hard on the wording, the Oxford Languages gives the meaning as “an organ or cell that acts in response to a stimulus.”
It appears it’s another form of bull**** speak brought about by people who seem to think using different wording to describe the bleeding obvious makes them appear more intelligent.
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Possibly but in this case it is just an abstraction used in MBSE class modelling activities; it just seems to have crept into the marketing spiel. A level of abstraction helps to develop a reference architecture that can be re-used across systems rather than a platform specific architecture.
Refer to the DE&S Pyramid Project.