What is the difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'TTY' and a 'console'?

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BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
I’ll try to answer.

A terminal / console is the program: Konsole/GNOME Terminal/Windows command prompt

A shell is what is executing the commands you type: Bash/ZSH/sh/PowerShell

TTY is a session in a terminal
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