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gh-120426: Reword the glossary term "immortal" (GH-123191) 

Reword the glossary term "immortal", mark it as an implementation detail
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which ships with the standard distribution of Python. which ships with the standard distribution of Python.
immortal immortal
If an object is immortal, its reference count is never modified, and *Immortal objects* are a CPython implementation detail introduced
therefore it is never deallocated. in :pep:`683`.
Built-in strings and singletons are immortal objects. For example, If an object is immortal, its :term:`reference count` is never modified,
:const:`True` and :const:`None` singletons are immortal. and therefore it is never deallocated while the interpreter is running.
For example, :const:`True` and :const:`None` are immortal in CPython.
See `PEP 683 – Immortal Objects, Using a Fixed Refcount
<https://peps.python.org/pep-0683/>`_ for more information.
immutable immutable
An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and An object with a fixed value. Immutable objects include numbers, strings and