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<table>
<caption id="transaction_terms">Transaction Term Table</caption>
<tr><th>Term <th>Definition
-<tr><td>Hello<td>The typical next word is World
+<tr><td>transaction<td>A unit of work performed in WiredTiger that is atomic and consistent with the specified isolation levels, and durability levels.
+<tr><td>session<td>The container that manages transactions and performs the transactional operations on behalf of the users in a single thread.
+<tr><td>atomicity<td>Atomicity is a guarantee provided within the context of a transaction that all operations made within that transaction either succeed or fail.
+<tr><td>isolation<td>Isolation determines which versions of data are visible to a running transaction, and whether it can see changes made by concurrently running transactions.
+<tr><td>durability<td>Durability is the property that guarantees that transactions that have been committed will survive permanently.
</table>
*/