| Setting | One value a player can change: master volume, window mode, UI scale. A SettingAsset in the project; an ISettingDefinition at runtime. |
| Key | A setting's stable storage name, category.name — audio.master. The prefix is the tab, the rest the label. Permanent once shipped. |
| Profile | A SettingsProfile asset: the list of settings a game exposes, in menu order, and which store persists them. The default one lives in a Resources folder. |
| Registry | A SettingsRegistry: a profile's settings loaded from a store, with pending values, dirty tracking and the Apply / Revert / Reset commands. |
| Manager | The WagSettingsManager scene component that owns the registry, attaches the appliers under it, and backs the static API. One per game. |
| Static API | WagSettings.Get / Set / Apply and friends — the one-line way to read and write settings from any script, through the manager. |
| Pending value | What the player has chosen but not yet applied. Value on a definition. |
| Applied baseline | The last value committed by Apply or loaded from the store. |
| Dirty | A setting whose pending value differs from its baseline. Apply and Revert enable themselves on it. |
| Apply | Commit every pending value to the store in one batch. What the Apply button and WagSettings.Apply() do. |
| Revert | Discard every pending value, restoring the baselines. |
| Reset | Return every setting to its authored default, pending until applied. |
| Store | An ISettingsStore: where values persist. PlayerPrefsStore by default; WagSaveStore when WagSave is installed. Writes buffer; Flush commits. |
| Applier | A SettingApplierBase component that turns a value into a Unity effect — mixer volume, screen resolution, quality tier. Lives under the manager. |
| Apply mode | Whether an applier acts on every change (Immediate) or only when the registry commits (OnApply). |
| Binder | What a UI control binds to: an ISettingBinder over a definition in UI Toolkit; a …SettingBinder component on a uGUI control. |
| Category | The tab a setting lands in, from its key's prefix. SettingsMenuCategory at runtime. |
| Menu | Either WagSettingsMenu (UI Toolkit) or WagSettingsMenuUGUI, both ISettingsMenu. They borrow the manager's registry. |
| Setup | The editor page that scans the project, and generates settings, the profile and a mixer into Assets/WagSettings/Resources. |
| Manifest | Setup's record of what it wrote and its fingerprint, so a re-run creates what is missing and never overwrites what you edited. |
| Display mode | A width, height and refresh rate. The resolution dropdown lists the ones the display supports. |
| Locale | A language code — en, es, ja, ko, zh-CN, zh-TW. The menu's is chosen by the game; the editor's on its Help page. |
