Terminology

We all know that communication is a great source of problems, and it is not different in software development.
Most of the terms that we use comes from a common sense of its meaning, but it is important to have a source for them. Although the dictionary is a great source for terms (not only the ones related to the software) we need to reference to something more specific.
Talking about software engineering there is two great sources for papers: ACM and IEEE. IEEE released a document: IEEE 610.12/1990 - IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terminology, with some terminology. Even if it is from 1990 (a little bit old) it is a good place to start.
As all IEEE documents you are supposed to buy it, but you can read it at this link: IEEE 610.12/1990