glossary: Add formal methods terms

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diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/formal-model.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/formal-model.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2023 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: formal model
+text: |
+  A model of a computing component (hardware or software) that has a
+  mathematically based ${semantics:/term}.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/linear-temporal-logic.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/linear-temporal-logic.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2022 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: Linear Temporal Logic
+text: |
+  This is a logic that states properties about (possibly infinite) sequences of
+  states.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/ltl.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/ltl.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2022 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: LTL
+text: |
+  This term is an acronym for ${linear-temporal-logic:/term}.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/refinement.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/refinement.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2022 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: refinement
+text: |
+  A *refinement* is a relationship between a specification and its
+  implementation as code.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/reification.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/reification.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2022 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: reification
+text: |
+  Another term used to denote ${refinement:/term}.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/scenario.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/scenario.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2023 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: scenario
+text: |
+  In a setting that involves many concurrent tasks that interleave in arbitrary
+  ways, a scenario describes a single specific possible interleaving.  One
+  interpretation of the behaviour of a concurrent system is the set of all its
+  scenarios.
+type: glossary
diff --git a/spec-glossary/glossary/semantics.yml b/spec-glossary/glossary/semantics.yml
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+SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 OR BSD-2-Clause
+copyrights:
+- Copyright (C) 2023 Trinity College Dublin
+enabled-by: true
+glossary-type: term
+links:
+- role: glossary-member
+  uid: ../glossary-general
+term: semantics
+text: |
+  This term refers to the meaning of text or utterances in some language.  In a
+  software engineering context these will be programming, modelling or
+  specification languages.
+type: glossary