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Docs: Clarifying runner in runner glossary

Gabriel Engel requested to merge gabrielengel_gl-main-patch-ed4f into main

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runner: The process that executes the job on a selected machine. Depending on the type of executor, this machine could be local to the runner manager (shell or docker executor) or a remote machine created by an autoscaler (docker-autoscaler or kubernetes).

Reads ambiguous, because of Depending on the type of executor, this machine... indicates that the runner is the machine. This MR clarifies that the runner is a process on a machine.

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Edited by Gabriel Engel

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