>Never heard or read it referred to that way.

from the book "What´s new in VFP 7":

"The CLR also provides a far simpler model for deploying components. Rather than having to wrangle with DLL registration and version clashing, the CLR allows you to deploy a component simply by
copying it to a computer and running it.
Regardless of which .NET programming language you use to create your components (also known as assemblies), when you compile .NET components rather than compiling down to machine code...". :)