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# Concepts

This page summarizes all the common concepts that you may find across the documentation.

## Concepts

* Mandarine compile time
  * The period of time when mandarine loads all your Mandarine-powered modules, inject dependencies, and load the different context that are necessary for your application to work, such as: Entity Manager, Template Registry, Application Context, and others.
* Request time
  * The moment when Mandarine's MVC HTTP Dispatcher receives a new request