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So one may observe a Power Organizing Module (POM) and a European Service Module (ESM) among other such TLA and may be left wondering what, exactly, a ESM or a POM actually is and does—a battery?—a "I can't believe it's not Socialism!" jobs program?—other? Oh well, back to grazing from this Nutrient Source Container (a bowl with a lot of lentils, a roma tomato that got the worst of the encounter, some olive oil, etc).
Keyboard? Why not call it an Industrial Force Sensing Device.
Maybe complexification is a thing, for example the pause(3) interface was made obsolete by the perhaps more format sigsuspend(2).