如何区分枚举索引项的枚举名称？

Question

I'm having a terrible time communicating with my teammates when I talk about enums. I can never properly differentiate what part of the enum I'm talking about.

enum PowerLevel {
    Low,
    Medium,
    High
}

Low , Medium , and High are what part of the enum?

What part is PowerLevel ?

Answer 1

I say that "Powerlevels" is the name of the enumeration. "Low", "Medium" and "High" are the members of the enumeration. These are also sometimes called named constants or elements.

This page actually uses all three names: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/sbbt4032(v=vs.80).aspx

Answer 2

The enum is powerlevels. It has three different values/instances : low, medium and high.

Low is an instance of powerlevels and is guaranteed to be a singleton.