The mathematical definition of a model is a process that generates data.
Was this the thinking followed by dbt by using this term?
I couldn’t get Google to give me anything like “a process that generates data” as a definition for mathematical model, model mathematics etc.
Models were named before I started using dbt, but I imagine it came from the result of data modeling:
Data modeling is the process of analyzing and defining all the different data your business collects and produces, as well as the relationships between those bits of data