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Ramiro Morales 932b1b8d6d Converted links to external topics so they use intersphinx extension markup.
This allows to make these links more resilent to changes in the target URLs.
Thanks Jannis for the report and Aymeric Augustin for the patch.

Fixes #16586.

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.. _glossary:
========
Glossary
========
.. glossary::
field
An attribute on a :term:`model`; a given field usually maps directly to
a single database column.
See :doc:`/topics/db/models`.
generic view
A higher-order :term:`view` function that provides an abstract/generic
implementation of a common idiom or pattern found in view development.
See :doc:`/ref/generic-views`.
model
Models store your application's data.
See :doc:`/topics/db/models`.
MTV
"Model-template-view"; a software pattern, similar in style to MVC, but
a better description of the way Django does things.
See :ref:`the FAQ entry <faq-mtv>`.
MVC
`Model-view-controller`__; a software pattern. Django :ref:`follows MVC
to some extent <faq-mtv>`.
__ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-view-controller
project
A Python package -- i.e. a directory of code -- that contains all the
settings for an instance of Django. This would include database
configuration, Django-specific options and application-specific
settings.
property
Also known as "managed attributes", and a feature of Python since
version 2.2. This is a neat way to implement attributes whose usage
resembles attribute access, but whose implementation uses method calls.
See :func:`property`.
queryset
An object representing some set of rows to be fetched from the database.
See :doc:`/topics/db/queries`.
slug
A short label for something, containing only letters, numbers,
underscores or hyphens. They're generally used in URLs. For
example, in a typical blog entry URL:
.. parsed-literal::
http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2008/apr/12/**spring**/
the last bit (``spring``) is the slug.
template
A chunk of text that acts as formatting for representing data. A
template helps to abstract the presentation of data from the data
itself.
See :doc:`/topics/templates`.
view
A function responsible for rending a page.