# Placement Predictability

> The degree to which a file's correct location is derivable from its role alone, with exactly one legal answer.

Record: `lexicon:placement-predictability`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-placement-predictability

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Glob Resolvability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/glob-resolvability.md) and before [Naming Expressiveness](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/naming-expressiveness.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## Enabled by

- [Closed Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/closed-vocabulary.md)
- [Layer Spine Precedence](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/layer-spine-precedence.md)
- [Derived Naming Registry](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/derived-naming-registry.md)
- [Collision Consolidation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/collision-consolidation.md)
- [Sanctioned Generic Subject](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/sanctioned-generic-subject.md)

## Reinforced by

- [Positional Slot Resolution](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/positional-slot-resolution.md)
- [Bounded Nesting Depth](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/bounded-nesting-depth.md)
- [Narrowest Concern](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/narrowest-concern.md)
- [Conformance at Creation](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/conformance-at-creation.md)
- [Root Spine Files](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/root-spine-files.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)