# pane (10-pane.com)

A pane is a single sheet of glass in a window or door. People also use it for any flat, distinct section of a surface, like a pane of a stained-glass window.

## What a model may hear
- UI panel or subwindow (software interfaces and web development): treat the request as about splitting a screen, creating a resizable region, or managing a dashboard layout
- terminal multiplexer pane (command-line tools like tmux or screen): assume the user wants to split a terminal into multiple shell sessions
- editor pane or buffer view (IDEs and text editors): interpret it as opening a side-by-side file comparison or a secondary editing area
- glass material in graphics (3D rendering and game engines): apply refractive glass shaders or window geometry in a scene

## Where people and models part ways
- Says: "Add a pane here"
  Means: Put in a new window section
  May be taken as: The model creates a tmux split or code editor panel instead of describing a physical window
  Say instead: "Describe a new glass window section in the room"
- Says: "The pane is broken"
  Means: A window got cracked
  May be taken as: The model debugs a software UI layout error or broken panel state
  Say instead: "The glass in the window is cracked"
- Says: "Three panes across"
  Means: A window with three glass sections
  May be taken as: The model generates a three-column web dashboard or terminal layout
  Say instead: "A window divided into three vertical glass sections"
- Says: "Pane of ice"
  Means: A flat sheet of ice like glass
  May be taken as: The model searches for frozen user interface panels or icing effects in software
  Say instead: "A flat, glass-like sheet of ice"

## Tips
- Say 'glass pane' or 'window pane' to keep the meaning physical
- Say 'panel' instead of 'pane' if you mean a software UI section
- Say 'tmux pane' or 'terminal pane' if you mean the command-line feature
- Avoid 'pane' alone when describing architecture; say 'window section' or 'glazing'
- In graphics contexts, say 'glass surface' or 'window material' to avoid 3D panel assumptions

## Often confused with
- panel: software or control surface, not glass
- pain: homophone, suffering or ache
- plane: flat surface or aircraft, not a window part
- frame: holds the pane, not the glass itself
- sash: the moving part that holds panes
- split: deliberate software division, not physical glass