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  1. [ **MDN Web Docs Glossary** ](/en-US/docs/Glossary)
    1. [ Abstraction ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Abstraction)
    2. [ Accent ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accent)
    3. [ Accessibility ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessibility)
    4. [ Accessibility tree ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessibility_tree)
    5. [ Accessible description ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessible_description)
    6. [ Accessible name ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Accessible_name)
    7. [ Adobe Flash ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Adobe_Flash)
    8. [ Advance measure ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Advance_measure)
    9. [ Ajax ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/AJAX)
    10. [ Algorithm ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Algorithm)
    11. [ Alignment container ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Alignment_Container)
    12. [ Alignment subject ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Alignment_Subject)
    13. [ Alpha (alpha channel) ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Alpha)
    14. [ ALPN ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/ALPN)
    15. [ API ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/API)
    16. [ Apple Safari ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Apple_Safari)
    17. [ Application Context ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Application_context)
    18. [ Argument ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Argument)
    19. [ ARIA ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/ARIA)
    20. [ ARPA ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/ARPA)
    21. [ ARPANET ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Arpanet)
    22. [ Array ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Array)
    23. [ ASCII ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/ASCII)
    24. [ Asynchronous ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Asynchronous)
    25. [ ATAG ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/ATAG)
    26. [ Attribute ](/en-US/docs/Glossary/Attribute)
    27. [ Bandwi