From: Zac Dover <zac.dover@proton.me>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 10:12:16 +0000 (+1000)
Subject: doc/glossary: add "application" to the glossary
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doc/glossary: add "application" to the glossary

Add an admittedly-stub definition of "application" to the glossary.

Co-authored-by: Anthony D'Atri <anthony.datri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Zac Dover <zac.dover@proton.me>
(cherry picked from commit 235d2e8b67b1700a55819a14eb26f00de86ba554)
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diff --git a/doc/glossary.rst b/doc/glossary.rst
index b8c4acd077e2a..6b0110301f3f8 100644
--- a/doc/glossary.rst
+++ b/doc/glossary.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 
 .. glossary::
 
+        Application
+                More properly called a "client", an application is any program
+                external to Ceph that uses a Ceph Cluster to store and
+                replicate data.
+
 	:ref:`BlueStore<rados_config_storage_devices_bluestore>`
                 OSD BlueStore is a storage back end used by OSD daemons, and
                 was designed specifically for use with Ceph. BlueStore was