What Is a Widget?

Notifications are now anchored at the bottom of the display. The idea being that they have this new customisable lock screen where you can change the wall paper and integrate widgets. But i think it's kind of weird that they're calling them widget, because they're really complications,. They're based on the same technology widgeso, they're not widgets at all. So these live activities are spet like rich notifications that look like widgets, but they aren't real time.