> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://getconvoy.io/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Brief definitions of the technical terms used throughout the Convoy documentation.

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  <Card title="Projects" href="/glossary/projects">
    Logical contexts that separate environments and teams.
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  <Card title="Endpoints" href="/glossary/endpoints">
    The target URLs that receive your events.
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  <Card title="Events" href="/glossary/events">
    A specific event triggered by your system.
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  <Card title="Event delivery" href="/glossary/event-delivery">
    Tracks successive attempts to deliver an event to an endpoint.
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  <Card title="Event types" href="/glossary/event-types">
    Determine which events an endpoint receives.
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  <Card title="Delivery attempts" href="/glossary/delivery-attempts">
    A single attempt to dispatch an event to an endpoint.
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  <Card title="Dead endpoints" href="/glossary/dead-endpoints">
    Endpoints that consecutively fail to acknowledge events.
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  <Card title="Secrets" href="/glossary/secrets">
    Used to sign the payload sent to an endpoint.
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  <Card title="Hash functions" href="/glossary/hash-functions">
    The hashing algorithms Convoy supports for signatures.
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  <Card title="Replay attacks" href="/glossary/replay-attacks">
    How Convoy helps prevent fraudulent re-transmission of payloads.
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  <Card title="Rate limiting endpoints" href="/glossary/rate-limiting-endpoints">
    Control how fast events are sent to an endpoint.
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  <Card title="Retry schedule" href="/glossary/retry-schedule">
    How and when Convoy retries failed deliveries.
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