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I'm working on a document where I use legends to describe abbreviations, short column names, units... generally things for which I don't have enough place in the main text to explain / elaborate.
These legend are formatted as a table, second column having the title "description", however I can't find a good title for the first column (abbreviations / words / expressions being described / explained).
What should be a good word here?
That sounds like a glossary.
Usually the column headers are term and definition. However, a lot of glossaries don't have any table column header. Just name the annex glossary and put the terms left and the definitions right.
