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 13 of 91: from “Cardan grille” to “chaincode”.
- Cardan grille noun A sheet of card or thin metal, etc., used in composing secret messages. The words of the message are written through a number of holes cut…
- cardinal spline noun A series of curves joined to form a larger one, defined by a set of control points and an amount of tension.
- cardinality noun The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or…
- cardware noun Synonym of postcardware.
- cargo aircraft noun A fixed-wing aircraft that is designed or converted for the carriage of cargo rather than passengers.
- cargo culting noun An approach that copies an existing successful approach without properly analysing and understanding it.
- cargo liner noun A lining for an aircraft's cargo hold; a lining for automotive interior wayback spaces or boots (trunks).
- caricature noun In facial recognition systems, a face that has been modified to look less like the average face, and thus more distinctive.
- carousel noun A visual component that displays a horizontal series of items one at a time.
- carriage control character noun A character, added to the beginning of each line of text to be printed on a line printer, that controls the movement of paper through the…
- carriage return noun The control character (0x0D in ASCII, abbreviated as CR) that originally signaled a device to perform a carriage return, but now merely…
- carrier noun A mobile network operator; wireless carrier.
- carry noun The bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation.
- carry out noun A command that exports a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) from the current column of an addition operation.
- carry-in noun A command that adds a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) to an accumulator for the current digit in an addition…
- carry-lookahead noun A command that checks whether there will be a carry (bit or digit that is carried in an addition operation) for the current digit in an…
- cart noun A cartridge for a computer or video game system.
- Cartesian closed category noun A category which has a terminal object and which for every two objects A and B has a product A × B and an exponential object Bᴬ.
- Cartesian product noun All possible combinations of rows between all of the tables listed.
- Cartesian square noun A pullback.
- cartouche noun A paper cartridge.
- cartridge noun The package consisting of the bullet, primer, and casing containing gunpowder; a round of ammunition.
- cartridge ejector noun A mechanism to eject a cartridge from its housing or cartridge drive, often operating on a simple mechanical principle.
- case noun A section of code representing one of the actions of a conditional switch.
- case hardening noun The process of imparting greater hardness to the surface of a piece of metal.
- case mod noun A modification to the outer case of a computer or video game console, to change its appearance or improve its performance.
- case sensitive adj Distinguishing upper- and lower-case letters. Often used in computer science to indicate a distinction is made in comparison or equality of…
- case sensitivity noun The characteristic of being case sensitive; having different reactions to typed letters based on whether the letters are uppercase or…
- case-based reasoning noun The process of solving new problems based on the known solutions of similar problems encountered in the past.
- case-hardened adj Of metal: harder at its surface, due to a case hardening process.
- casing noun The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
- casing shoe noun In drilling, a bullnosed device attached to the bottom of the casing string. A casing hanger, which allows the casing to be suspended from…
- cassette noun A saggar (ceramic container used in a kiln).
- cassette drive noun A cassette tape interface unit for computers, used to read and/or write data to/from a minicassette.
- cast noun The measurement of the angle of a shotgun stock from a top-view center line, used to align the shotgun to the shooter's eye.
- cast away verb To eliminate by means of a cast operation.
- castable noun Any substance that can be cast, as in a mould.
- castellated adj Having grooves or recesses on an upper face.
- casting noun The act of converting between data types.
- cat noun A program and command in Unix that reads one or more files and directs their content to the standard output.
- cat's-paw noun A metal set of claws worn over the hand or wielded in the hand used to remove skin and flesh.
- catadioptric adj Of or pertaining to optical systems that employ both reflective (catoptric) and refractive (dioptric) elements.
- catadrome noun A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights.
- Catalina noun A twin-engined amphibious aircraft used during the Second World War.
- catalogue noun A directory listing.
- catapeltic adj Pertaining to a catapult or catapults.
- catapult effect noun The phenomenon where a loose current-carrying wire is catapulted horizontally away in the presence of a magnetic field.
- cataract noun A type of governor used in single-acting steam engines, where a flow of water through an opening regulates the stroke.
- catcall noun In the Eiffel programming language, a run-time error caused by use of the wrong data type.
- catch verb To handle an exception.
- categorical dual noun For a given category C, its dual category Cᵒᵖ is obtained by reversing the direction of each one of the arrows of C.
- categorification noun A procedure that defines theorems in terms of category theory by mapping concepts from set theory to category theory.
- category reference noun A reference that specifies within some taxonomy or text typology one or more defined categories into which the referenced article, computer…
- catenary noun Any physical cable, rope, chain, or other weight-supporting structure taking such geometric shape, as a suspension cable for a bridge or a…
- cathead noun A (small) capstan (“vertical cylindrical machine that revolves on a spindle, used to apply force to cables, ropes, etc.”) or windlass…
- cathode noun An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows outwards (and thus…
- cathode ray noun A ray consisting of a stream of electrons in a vacuum tube that are emitted by the cathode and accelerated towards the anode by an electric…
- cathode ray tube noun A vacuum tube that displays still or moving images (such as for a television), by controlling the direction of a cathode ray emitted…
- caustic noun The envelope of reflected or refracted rays of light for a given surface or object.
- caustic curve noun A curve to which the ray of light, reflected or refracted by another curve, are tangents, the reflecting or refracting curve and the…
- cave noun A code cave.
- cavity noun The female part of a mold: the depression itself or (metonymically) the half of the mold that contains it.
- cavity magnetron noun A high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators.
- CC noun Initialism of compact cassette.
- CCD noun Initialism of charge-coupled device (digital camera cell technology).
- CD noun Initialism of collision detection.
- CD3 noun an 80-mm (3-inch) CD (compact disc)
- CD5 noun a 120-mm (5-inch) CD (compact disc)
- cdi noun Initialism of context(s) and dependency injection.
- cdr noun The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.
- ceiling noun The highest altitude at which an aircraft can safely maintain flight.
- cel shading noun A style of non-photorealistic rendering suggesting the flat, hand-drawn appearance of a comic or cartoon.
- celerity noun The speed of symbol transmission, now called baud rate.
- cell noun The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior.
- cell-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm where the fundamental unit of computation is a self-contained cell that can process and store data and communicate…
- cellular adj Using cells (local groups of devices sharing a transceiver).
- cellular automaton noun An automaton consisting of cells arranged in a regular grid, in one or more dimensions. Each application of an associated rule creates a…
- cementation noun An obsolete process of manufacturing steel by carburizing iron.
- censor noun An algorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc.
- censorware noun Software or hardware used to filter content on the Internet or block Internet access or restrict the running of applications or computer…
- census noun A count of the number of individual patterns within a larger pattern, most often the ash of a soup or a methuselah.
- center verb To form a recess or indentation for the reception of a center.
- center stick noun An aircraft cockpit arrangement where the control column is located in the center of the cockpit either between the pilot's legs or between…
- centerline noun A line, either demarcated or imagined, representing the precise center (middle) of something (such that what lies on one side of it is…
- centipede game noun An extensive form game in which two players take turns choosing either to take a slightly larger share of an increasing pot, or to pass the…
- central processing unit noun The part of a computer that fetches, decodes and executes instructions from memory, possibly through a cache.
- centre of lift noun That point on an aircraft where all the various lifting forces act. If the centre or lift is not coincident with the centre of gravity on…
- Centrex noun A service similar to a private branch exchange, but providing switching at the central office instead of at the customer's premises.
- centroid noun The point at which gravitational force (or other universally and uniformly acting force) may be supposed to act on a given rigid, uniformly…
- CEO noun Acronym of current engine option.
- cepstrum noun The inverse Fourier transform of the logarithm of a magnitude spectrum; used especially in voice analysis.
- certificate noun The information needed in order to verify a positive answer to a problem.
- CFG noun Initialism of context-free grammar.
- CFI noun certificated flight instructor
- CFII noun certificated (or certified, informally) flight instructor, instrument (a CFI with an instrument rating, qualified to give instrument flight…
- chain verb To relate data items with a chain of pointers.
- chain drill noun A drilling tool that is driven by a rotating chain with attached drill bits or teeth to bore holes.
- chain-driven adj Referring to the transmission of power by means of a suitable endless chain, such as a bicycle chain.
- chain-of-responsibility pattern noun A behavioural design pattern that consists of a source of command objects and a series of processing objects.
- chaincode noun Alternative form of chain code.