protein denaturation any nonproteolytic change in the chemistry, composition, or structure of a native protein that causes it to lose some or all of its unique or specific characteristics.
(December 2009) In electronic design, a netlist is a description of the connectivity of an electronic circuit. In its simplest form, a netlist consists of a list of the electronic components in a circuit and a list of the nodes they are connected to. A network (net) is a collection of two or more interconnected components.
namespace is a container of identifiers (variables, functions). A namespace would be Some::Thing. symbol-table is the place where the identifier of a namespace are stored. Basically we can think of a symbol-table as being equivalent to namespace. package is a keyword of Perl that switches to a new namespace. Sometimes people refer to a particular release or a distribution as being a package, but that only happens because when we zip up several files of a release we often think about the English word package.