the abstraction used in the NTFS file system—the default file system for all Microsoft Windows versions belonging to the Windows NT family—to associate pathnames and certain kinds of metadata, with entries in the NTFS Master File Table.

(abbreviated TxF) a component introduced in Windows Vista and present in later versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system that brings the concept of atomic transactions to the NTFS file system, allowing Windows application developers to write file-output routines that are guaranteed to either succeed completely or to fail completely.

NTFS volume mount points are specialized NTFS filesystem objects which are used to mount and provide an entry point to other volumes.

An NTFS reparse point is a type of NTFS file system object.