A file containing directory entries. Each entry supplies a name in that file-system directory; two entries in the same file-system directory cannot have the same name. In an inode-based file system, a file-system directory has its own inode, and its contents describe names of other objects. [ref]
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/V1_chap03.html#tag_03_103. The Open Group, POSIX.1-2024, sections 3.103–3.104: directory and directory entry
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