A HIVE is the only nonsensical name in the registry; everything else is keys, subkeys, or values. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/struc

A HIVE is the only nonsensical name in the registry; everything else is keys, subkeys, or values. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/structure-of-the-registry https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/stru... That said, the registry has been around for ~30 years and the terminology is well known to Windows users. It didn't build off of previously available terminology. Homebrew just made shit up on the spot based on the project's name to be internally consistent with itself. Microsoft has it's own fsckery of randomly named cute crap elsewhere, of course.