# Glossary

> Every term the documentation uses, defined once.

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Action through Mixer.

| Term | Means |
| --- | --- |
| Action | One thing a button or key does: a unit command or an animation. |
| Assignment | Binds a clip to a target in a phase, with an order and a stagger. |
| Bank | A page of keys on a Stream Deck profile. |
| Binding | A link from a component input to a store path. |
| Bar | A component that fills proportionally to a value. |
| Channel | One animatable property lane on a clip. |
| Clip | A duration, an easing and a set of channels. Kinds: in, run, out, emphasis. |
| Component | A node on a scene: text, image, video, lottie, button, bar, chart, rectangle. |
| Control panel | An operator scene of widgets. Never composited to air. |
| Counter | A unit holding a number you step and reset. |
| Data | The page's JSON: the seed for the runtime store. |
| Formatter | A unit computing a derived value from other paths. |
| Group | A logical container of components; nests up to four deep. |
| Guard | What a binding paints when its value is missing: hold, blank, zero or fallback. |
| Layer | A scene. Kind canvas (goes to air) or controlPanel (never does). |
| Live sync | A page whose edits reach the output as you work. |
| Lottie | Vector motion graphics from After Effects. |
| Mixer | The audio desk: a master bus and one strip per audio plate. |