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 Thread is usually be described as having a //length//, two //positions// in space-time (its start and its end - the intermediate parts may also have positions, but these are less useful to mention, as on their own they can easily be impossible to pin down for certain for more than a Planck timespan), and //information content// or //payload//. (This is true of any line that's travelling through the cellular automaton, even for mundane physical processes such as a travelling photon. That said, not everything in physics is 'line-shaped', whereas Thread certainly is.)
-Threads can be chained together (forming a single piece of longer Thread), or their information content can be rewritten by other Thread. A macroscopic piece of Thread in the sense that Threadwielders //wield// tends to be wrapped in a sheath of non-Thread material (a kind of mirroring substance that perpetuates the Thread pattern within it, preserving it) that allows it to be grasped and moved much like a thing with mass. ('Macro'-Thread as a whole does not have mass, nor inertia. To unskilled observers, it may appear to have something much like inertia in certain circumstances.)
+Threads can be chained together (forming a single piece of longer Thread), or their information content can be rewritten by other Thread. A macroscopic piece of Thread in the sense that Threadwielders //wield// tends to be wrapped in a sheath of non-Thread material (a kind of mirroring substance that perpetuates the Thread pattern within it, preserving it) that allows it to be grasped and moved much like a thing with mass. ('Macro'- or Sheathed Thread as a whole does not have mass, nor inertia. To unskilled observers, it may appear to have something much like inertia in certain circumstances.)
-'Macro'-Thread is typically //inert//, in that it's not actively doing anything but hanging around. It's a closed cellular automaton pattern. It takes tampering to get it to do anything else - but when it does 'anything else', it will do it with a ruthless efficiency, propagating as a disruption through the automaton.
+Sheathed Thread is typically //inert//, in that it's not actively doing anything but hanging around. It's a closed cellular automaton pattern. It takes tampering to get it to do anything else - but when it does 'anything else', it will do it with a ruthless efficiency, propagating as a disruption through the automaton.
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