This term is a purely Cubicomp buzzword. As used within their software and documentation, a position word is the set of numbers that orient a single keyframe. Each keyframe gets a position word, and a position word stores the translations, rotations, and zooms that were used to create the view of the world seen in the keyframe. Position words do triple duty: They define the current view of the world. A position word is made up of nine numbers: x, y, and Z rotation; x, y, and z translation; x and y offsets; and scale; They define keyframes (since a keyframe is a particular view of the world; Similarly, in-betweens are automatically generated views of the world that are in between keyframes.