Body of Knowledge
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The recognized collection of concepts, methods, standards, and practices associated with a profession or discipline. In tech and adjacent fields the phrase often appears in certification, training, and professionalization conversations.
In plain English: The accepted set of knowledge associated with a field or profession.
Example: "The certification guide treated incident management as part of a formal body of knowledge, which felt unusual to engineers used to learning it informally on the job."