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- Meet: The whole competition, with its name, dates, venue, pool, fees and entry rules.
- Session: A block of the program (for example, Saturday morning), with a day, start and end times and warm-up times. Every event belongs to a session.
- Event: A distance and stroke for one gender, with its own number (for example, event 7, women’s 400 m freestyle).
- Round: The stage of the event:
TIM Timed Finals, PRE Prelims, SEM Semi-final, FIN Final and FHT Fastest Heat. The fastest heat is not a new round: the slow heats (usually in the morning) and the fast heat (at night) share a single ranking.
- Heat: A group of swimmers who race at the same time, one per lane.
- Lane: The swimmer’s or team’s position in the pool. The first and last lanes in use are set on the meet.
- Age group: The class in which results are ranked, usually by age range and gender. An event can have several age groups.
- Seeding: Placing the entries into heats and lanes, usually by entry time.
- Make official: Confirming a heat’s results. An event is official once all its heats are official; only then do places show in reports and on the site.
- Results desk: The computer running the app where the meet is operated. A downloaded meet is reserved to that desk.
