This page gathers the 9,098 dictionary entries belonging to the domain “Engineering”, as labelled by Wiktionary. Each word leads to its full entry: definitions, etymology, pronunciation, examples. Page 12 of 91: from “byte pair encoding” to “card reader”.
- byte pair encoding noun A lossless data compression algorithm that iteratively replaces the most frequent pair of adjacent bytes in a sequence with a new byte not…
- bytecode noun P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further…
- bytestring noun A text string treated as a series of single bytes rather than a series of characters of possibly varying storage size.
- bytewise adj In terms of bytes, or one byte at a time.
- Byzantine fault tolerance noun The dependability of a fault-tolerant (distributed) computer system, where components may fail without perfect information about the state…
- C family noun Any one of the several programming languages which share significant features of the C programming language.
- C-string noun A C-style string.
- cab noun Clipping of cabinet file (“a compressed library archive file”).
- cabalize verb To encode as a Haskell package with the ".cabal" extension, which can then be installed and interpreted using the cabal command.
- cabin noun The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- cabin crew noun The members of staff aboard a commercial aircraft, employed to ensure the safety and comfort of their passengers.
- cable core noun Central part or the innermost part of a power cable which carries electric current and is surrounded by various layers of insulation.
- cablegami noun A technique used in the building of computer systems that involves the complex folding of flat ribbon cables as if they were origami, or…
- cabré adj With the nose up and the tail down.
- cache noun A fast temporary storage where recently or frequently used information is stored to avoid having to reload it from a slower storage medium.
- cache buster noun A tag or value included in a request (such as a URL) purely to differentiate it from previous requests and thus avoid receiving a cached…
- cache language model noun A type of statistical language model that assigns probabilities to word sequences based on a probability distribution.
- cache stampede noun A cascading failure that may occur when massively parallel systems with caching mechanisms come under very high load, leading to multiple…
- cadence noun The frequency of regular product releases.
- Caesar cipher noun A simple form of encryption in which each letter in the plaintext is shifted through the alphabet a number of positions (for example A→D…
- cag noun Initialism of commander of the air group.
- cage verb To immobilize an artificial horizon.
- cageable adj Able to be caged, or immobilized.
- caisson noun A (permanent) enclosure from which water can be expelled, in order to give access to underwater areas for engineering works etc.
- cake-cutting noun A theoretical framework for the fair division of resources which studies algorithms and rules that ensure multiple parties receive a fair…
- calendar versioning noun A versioning scheme where each release number is based on the build date, usually in the ISO 8601 format, allowing for easy sorting.
- Cali or bust phrase Expressing a desire to work for a company in Silicon Valley, California (especially a FAANG company).
- calibrate verb To check or adjust by comparison with a standard.
- calibrated airspeed noun An aircraft's indicated airspeed corrected for errors introduced by instrument variations and by the position on the aircraft of the…
- call noun The act of jumping to a subprogram, saving the means to return to the original point.
- call by sharing noun An evaluation strategy where arguments passed to a function can be mutated in a way that is visible to the caller (unlike call-by-value)…
- call center noun A communications facility where phone calls are handled; especially, a commercial one for customer service, sales and telemarketing.
- call delay noun The delay that occurs when a call arrives at an automatic switching device and no channel or facility is immediately available to process…
- call graph noun A directed graph that represents relationships between called and calling subroutines in a computer program, used in code analysis.
- call history noun An itemised list of the telephone numbers called from a particular account.
- call stack noun A stack that stores details of the functions called by a program in sequence, so that each function can return on completion to the code…
- call the ball verb When landing on a US aircraft carrier: to sight the lights from the multi-colored optical landing system that shows a pilot to be on the…
- call tree noun A hierarchical communication structure used to rapidly notify a group of people during emergencies or critical events.
- call-by-future noun An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated concurrently with the function body.
- call-by-name noun An evaluation strategy whereby an argument to a function is evaluated each time its value is used in the function, and is not evaluated at…
- call-by-need noun An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated the first time they are used in that function.
- call-by-reference noun An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and a pointer to the result is passed to the function.
- call-by-value noun An evaluation strategy in which the arguments to a function are evaluated first, and the result is passed into the function.
- call-with-current-continuation noun A programming language operation that captures the current state of execution (the continuation) and provides it as a function that can be…
- callable adj That can be called.
- callback noun A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon to a computer network.
- callback hell noun (mostly of the JavaScript language) The situation where callbacks are nested within other callbacks several levels deep, potentially making…
- callee noun The person who is called by the caller (on the telephone).
- caller noun The person who makes a telephone call.
- calligraphic projection noun A system for displaying or projecting an image composed of a beam of light or electrons directly tracing the image, as opposed to sweeping…
- calligraphics noun The use of calligraphic projection.
- calloc noun A subroutine in the C programming language's standard library for performing dynamic memory allocation.
- callout noun The invocation of an external third-party component.
- calltip noun A pop-up reminder of the signature of a function or method, to aid the programmer while writing code.
- caltrop noun A metal object, usually small, with spikes arranged so that, when thrown onto the ground, one always faces up as a threat to pedestrians…
- camber noun The curvature of an airfoil.
- camel case noun Especially in computer programming, and in the names of brands and organizations: a style of typography in which several words are…
- camelize verb To change a variable or object name that consists of several words into camel case.
- camera noun The viewpoint in a three-dimensional game or simulation.
- camout noun An instance in which a screwdriver slips out of the head of a screw due to excessive torque being applied; an instance of camming out.
- camwheel noun A wheel with one or more projections (cams) or depressions upon its periphery or upon its face, one which is set or shaped eccentrically…
- can noun Abbreviation of controller area network.
- Canadian traveller problem noun A generalization of the shortest path problem to graphs that are only partially observable (i.e. the graph is revealed while it is being…
- canard noun A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
- canary verb To test a software change by rolling out to a small set of machines or users before making it available to all.
- canary release noun A deployment strategy performed in order to reduce the risk of introducing a new software version in production by slowly rolling out the…
- candidate key noun In the design of a database table, a column (or an irreducible group of them) able to identify every row of the table, having a unique…
- candlestick telephone noun An early style of telephone with a mouthpiece (transmitter) mounted at the top of its stand, and a receiver that was held by the user to…
- canned benchmark noun A computer program designed for the sole purpose of benchmarking the hardware it's being run on.
- cannelure noun A ringlike groove, such as that around the cylinder of an elongated bullet for small arms to contain a lubricant, or around the rotating…
- cannon noun An autocannon.
- cannonball noun A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon.
- cannula noun A hose or tube that connects directly from an oxygen bottle or other source to the user's nose, commonly used by aircraft pilots or others…
- cannular adj Having multiple individual burner cans within a single annular pressure vessel.
- Canny edge detector noun An operator that uses a multistage algorithm, involving the calculus of variations, to detect the edges in an image.
- canonical adj In canonical form.
- canonical form noun A standard or normal presentation of a mathematical entity or a text string, etc.
- canoniser noun a software component, algorithm, or process that converts data with multiple possible representations into a single, standard, or…
- canopy noun In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.
- cantilever noun A beam anchored at one end and projecting into space, such as a long bracket projecting from a wall to support a balcony.
- Canuck noun The Avro Canada CF-100 fighter-interceptor aircraft, in use between 1952 and 1981.
- canvas noun A region on which graphics can be rendered.
- cap noun A capacitor.
- capability noun A digital token allowing a user or process to interact in a specified way with an object that is subject to access control.
- capacitor noun An electronic component capable of storing electrical energy in an electric field; especially one consisting of two conductors separated by…
- capacitor plague noun Premature failure of an electrolytic capacitor, especially when several are beginning to fail at the same time in a piece of equipment…
- CAPCOM noun Clipping of capsule communicator; a NASA position, the liaison between an in-space crew and mission control.
- capped collection noun In MongoDB, a fixed-size collection that, once the size limit has been reached, replaces the oldest record whenever a new one is added.
- Caps Lock noun An input mode in which all letters of bicameral scripts are generated in capital letters.
- capstan noun A rotating spindle used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder.
- capsule noun A detachable part of a rocket or spacecraft (usually in the nose) containing the crew's living space.
- captain noun A rank qualifying an airline pilot to act as pilot in command of a two-pilot flight crew.
- CAPTCHA noun A computerized test requiring the human user to perform a task deemed to be difficult to automate, such as entering a displayed series of…
- capture noun A particular match found for a pattern in a text string.
- capture card noun A circuit board allowing a computer to record video from an external source.
- captureless adj (of a lambda function) That has an empty capture list.
- car noun The first part of a cons in Lisp. The first element of a list.
- card noun A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability.
- card clash noun The situation where two or more contactless payment cards are simultaneously detected by a card reader, possibly resulting in the incorrect…
- card reader noun A data input device that reads data from a card-shaped storage medium.