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by ants_everywhere 321 days ago
Name collisions are possible, but in these cases the terms are explicitly modeled on the biological concepts.
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It's not name “collision”, they took a biological name that somehow felt apt for what they where doing.

To continue oblios's analogy, when you use the “hibernation mode” of your OS, it only has superficial similarity with how manals hibernate during winter…