This site might refer to terms which are not in common use, or which have a very specific meaning. The glossary collects these terms into a single location

Orchestration
The control and sequencing of code operations in a pipeline.
Pipeline
Code which extracts and processes data.
Technical adapter
Code which allows data to be extracted from a given source system into the data processing pipelines. Each different source system will probably need a different adapter to allow the data to be extracted, but all datasets from within a single system can use the same adapter.