| Term | Definition |
| irregularity or abnormality | |
| a rule that is under business jurisdiction | |
| a particular situation | |
| any case that satisfies the considerations used to establish scope for an operational business decision | |
| the state of decision logic in which there are no missing rules (omissions) for any case in scope | |
| the semantic blueprint of a structured business vocabulary | |
| a factor in making an operational business decision; something that can be resolved to two or more cases | |
| see intersection-style | |
| a determination requiring know-how or expertise; the resolving of a question by identifying some correct or optimal choice | |
| identifying and analyzing some key question arising in day-to-day business activity and capturing the decision logic used to answer the question | |
| a means to organize specifications pertaining to one or more decision tables | |
| a cell in a decision table where an outcome appears | |
| the set of all decision rules for cases in scope | |
| a business rule that guides the making of an operational business decision; specifically, a business rule that links a case to some appropriate outcome | |
| a structured means of visualizing decision rules in rows and columns | |
| constituting an expression or representation that can be either true or false | |
| a decision rule or set of decision rules that supplies the appropriate outcome(s) for omissions in a decision table | |
| not overlapping | |
| a case produced from a single consideration | |
| see exceptional case | |
| a case in scope that does not use the considerations of a standard case; i.e., a case in scope that is based on some consideration(s) that is/are not among the considerations for a standard case | |
| covering all possible cases in scope | |
| reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal | |
| a case representing a combination of one elemental case from each of two or more considerations | |
| using both columns and rows of a decision table to represent two or more considerations and their elemental cases with appropriate outcomes in intersection cells | |
| accumulated practical skill or expertness; especially technical knowledge, ability, skill, or expertness of this sort | |
| an anomaly in decision logic where some case in scope is not addressed by any rule | |
| see intersection-style (format of decision table) | |
| the row-or-column-style that uses only columns to represent entire decision rules | |
| the row-or-column-style that uses only rows to represent entire decision rules | |
| a determination requiring operational business know-how or expertise; the resolving of an operational business question by identifying some correct or optimal choice | |
| a potential outcome that is deemed appropriate for some case | |
| some result, conclusion, or answer that might be deemed appropriate for some case addressed by some decision | |
| an expression or representation meant to be included in a series of other expressions or representations to specify a procedure | |
| a business rule that directly governs the integrity (correctness) of a decision table | |
| using only the physical columns or the physical rows of a decision table to represent all considerations and their elemental cases plus appropriate outcomes — i.e., entire decision rules | |
| a guide for conduct or action; a standard on which a decision or judgment may be based | |
| a factor along with some explicit cases identified externally to a decision table to which the decision table is deemed applicable | |
| ensuring strict logical uniqueness of intersection cases in row-or-column-style decision tables | |
| specifying a business rule only once no matter how many places are affected (e.g., cells in a decision table) or the rule is deployed | |
| a case in scope that is regular or common, and cannot be excluded from normal treatment or rejected out-of-hand | |
| the set of terms and their definitions, and all wordings, that organize operational business know-how | |
| the Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS) set of conventions, guidelines and techniques for representing decision tables in the most business-friendly fashion | |
| the semantics (meaning) of a decision table expressed in the form of a rule that indicates how the decision table should be interpreted — i.e., how to 'read' it |