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Merge pull request 'Glossary: node-engine replaces "host agent" and mesh-host' (#114) from glossary/node-engine into main

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## The mesh and its machines
- **node** — a machine in the mesh. There are 0..n of them, and each runs the host agent. A node is
- **node** — a machine in the mesh. There are 0..n of them, and each runs the node-engine. A node is
just a machine that has joined; being one implies nothing about what it runs.
- **operator account** — the login name of the person who works on a node, stated on the node
record; empty for a machine nobody logs into. Everything the mesh places under a person's home is
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control-plane/data-plane, and opaque here).
- **mesh-controller** — the module that runs the controller. It **claims** the `mesh-controller`
seat at mesh scope, which is what makes it singular. Replaces the module name **`mesh-control`**.
- **node-engine** — the program on every node that applies what the controller declares: it receives the
node's declaration, writes the files, runs the services and containers, and reports what it did. It
is the engine, not a module: it owns no file's content, and every file it writes belongs to the module
that declared it. Replaces **"host agent"**, **"the host"** and **`mesh-host`**. *Agent* is avoided
because the word already means two other things here, the build agent and the operator's coding
agent. The code still carries the old name (the `mesh-host` repository, its binary and service
unit) until the rename is made there; a record written before the rename keeps the old name.
(The git repository has been renamed `mesh-control` -> `mesh-controller` on the forge; the module,
container and image it produces are `mesh-controller`.)
- **foundation** — the store and the broker, raised at genesis before any module system exists.