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Avoid using whenever possible. Instead, replace master with a contextually relevant term such as primary, main, original, parent, initiator, driver, controller, manager, mixer, aggregator, publisher, leader, or active. Use primary/secondary, primary/subordinate, principal/agent or other relevant terms instead of master/slave.
Avoid using in standard documentation; reserve may for official policy or legal considerations. To convey possibility, use might instead. To convey permission, use can instead.
Use medium as a singular subject and media as a plural subject. Accordingly, use the correct verb form; the medium is and the media are.
However, when discussing audio, video, and images, you can use media as a singular subject to describe a collection of content such as a set of images.
In general, don’t hyphenate words beginning with mega- such as megabit, megabyte, megahertz, and megapixel, unless mega- is followed by a proper noun or it is absolutely necessary to avoid confusion.
In most cases, refer to a specific kind of memory, such as random-access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), virtual memory, or portable storage devices.
In the noun forms that refer to memory measurements, use of in a prepositional phrase before the unit, such as 512 MB of RAM.
Don’t use memory to refer to storage capacity; instead, use a term such as storage space.
Don’t use as a verb. Instead, use send, receive, or a contextually relevant term.
OK to use as a noun. If required, you can also provide adjective to present further context, such as text message, email message, audio message or video message.
In general, don’t hyphenate words beginning with meta- such as metadata, and metafeed, unless meta- is followed by a proper noun or it is absolutely necessary to avoid confusion.
In the context developer documentation or for a technical audience, where method refers to a member of a class, avoid also using method as a synonym for manner or approach.
In general, don’t hyphenate words beginning with micro- such as microprocessor, microservices, and microcomputer unless micro- is followed by a proper noun or it is absolutely necessary to avoid confusion.
Use to move databases, media, users, applications or code, from one server, environment or platform to another. Don’t use as a synonym for upgrade or port.
Avoid referring to the mouse whenever possible. Instead, emphasize on the task to be accomplished, and the interaction verb with the mouse such as select, click, or press.
In general, don’t hyphenate words beginning with multi- such as multimedia, multilevel, multisite, and multiuser, unless multi- is followed by a proper noun or it is absolutely necessary to avoid confusion.
