I've Been Using This Word My Entire Career

As a person who went through many phases, 3d graphic, real-time engines, programming and now AI, I noticed that there is a plethora of words that persist through these fields. At the very fundamental level, they might describe the same thing, but they are abstracted into a unique, niche fitting idea. That's why, depending on your expertise you'll understand the word "model" differently. Mostly because you see it through a different abstraction or you use models in a conceptually different way. A model can be used as a predictive tool but it can also be used as a descriptor.