Glossary of the Identity-Persistence Stack

This glossary provides the controlled vocabulary of the Identity-Persistence Program. It distinguishes identity persistence from adjacent concepts including regularity, recurrence, symmetry, invariance, pattern, compression, coherence, stability, verification, trust, probability, recognition, and occurrence. The central rule is that claims of sameness through change are licensed only relative to a declared regime. The glossary defines the principal structural terms of the program, including regime specification, identity-bearing unit, admissibility, equivalence, quotient, continuation, invariant basis, drift bounds, governance, verdict, and capacity/coding. It also distinguishes formal results, derived readings, exploratory realizations, engineering terminology, open problems, and explicitly not-claimed boundaries. The document is intended as the controlled vocabulary and drift-control reference for the broader Identity-Persistence research program rather than as a source of new mathematical results or an independent metaphysical theory.