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 14 of 91: from “chained” to “circulatory system”.
- chained adj Linked in a chain.
- chamber noun The area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.
- change management noun the controlled implementation of required changes to some system; includes version control and planned fallback
- change wheel noun One of a set of wheels of different sizes and number of teeth, that may be changed or substituted for one another in machinery, to produce…
- changelog noun A log that records changes between versions, as in source control.
- channel noun A structural member with a cross section shaped like a squared-off letter C.
- char noun A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
- character noun One of the basic elements making up a text file or string: a code representing a printing character or a control character.
- character encoding noun A well-defined correspondence between text characters and the numeric values used to represent them.
- character set noun The set of characters encoded by a given character encoding.
- characterwise adj In terms of text characters.
- charge noun An electric charge.
- charged particle noun Any particle, especially a subatomic particle, that carries an electric charge.
- charger noun A speed loader that holds several cartridges together in a single unit for easier loading of a firearm's magazine.
- charging case noun A removable protective outside layer for an electronic device that contains a battery for the purpose of charging the device contained…
- charityware noun Software distributed in a way that benefits a charity, as by users being encouraged to donate to the charity in lieu of paying for the…
- charm noun An icon providing quick access to a command or setting.
- chase plane noun An aircraft that flies alongside another, to advise or photograph it while experimental flights are being carried out.
- chatter mark noun One of the fine undulations or ripples formed on the surface of work by a cutting tool which chatters.
- chatterbox noun Synonym of chatterbot.
- chattermark noun An irregularity on a workpiece, caused by vibration.
- chatty adj Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.
- cheap adj Taking little of system time or resources.
- cheapfake noun A fake or misleading piece of media (such as a video clip or image) created using conventional methods, as opposed to AI deep learning…
- cheatline noun In civil aviation, a decorative horizontal band of color applied to both sides of an aircraft's fuselage of as part of its livery.
- check in noun The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
- check out verb To obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified…
- checkbox noun An on-screen box that can be optionally filled with a check mark, to enable or disable a setting.
- checked build noun A special version of a software program that can provide advanced debug information in the event of a fault.
- checkerboard rendering noun A rasterization optimization technique where on every pass only a part of the final resolution is rendered (sometimes in a checkerboard…
- checkpoint noun A situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be…
- checksum noun A number, derived by applying a suitable algorithm to some data, used to check whether errors have occurred in transmission, storage or…
- cheek noun The middle section of a flask, made so that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mould.
- cheese verb To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density.
- cherry-pick verb In source control, to commit selected changes from one branch to another.
- cherubs noun A multiservice tactical brevity code for communicating the altitude of friendly aircraft.
- Chicago piano noun The Thompson submachine gun.
- chicken bit noun A bit on a chip that can be used to disable one of the features of the chip if it proves faulty or negatively impacts performance.
- chicken wing verb To shoot in a chicken wing stance, i.e. with both elbows positioned inline with the neck.
- chiclet keyboard noun Any of various early computer keyboards having an array of small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys.
- child noun A data item, process, or object which has a subservient or derivative role relative to another.
- chill verb To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling.
- chin noun The lower part of the front of an aircraft, below the nose.
- chine noun A longitudinal line of sharp change in the cross-section profile of the fuselage or similar body.
- chinkware noun Software created in China, regarded as being likely to maliciously surveil the user; Chinese spyware.
- chip noun A circuit fabricated in one piece on a small, thin substrate; a microchip.
- chipless adj That cuts or forms a material without producing chips.
- chippy noun A chiptune.
- chipset noun A group of integrated circuits that are designed to work together, and are usually marketed as a single product.
- choice machine noun A type of computing model where the next action is not entirely determined by its current state and the symbol it reads.
- choke noun A choking coil.
- choke tube noun An internally tapering metal cylinder attached to the muzzle of a shotgun, designed to constrict the spreading pattern of the shot pellets.
- choke valve noun A specialized flow control device used to restrict the flow rate of fluids (gases or liquids) and manage significant pressure drops.
- chomp noun A unit of computing storage equal to sixteen bits (two bytes), which can represent any of 65536 distinct values.
- Chomsky hierarchy noun A containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars. From least to most specialized, the classes are: recursively enumerable…
- Chomsky Normal Form noun A context-free grammar in which the right hand side of any production rule consists of either one terminal symbol or two non-terminal…
- chooser noun A user interface element allowing something to be selected from a list or group.
- chop verb To remove the final character from (a text string).
- chopper noun Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- chord noun A horizontal member of a truss.
- chorded adj Through which input is supplied by pressing a relatively small number of keys in combinations, as though playing chords.
- chording noun The ability, using a keyboard or similar device, to enter characters or commands in the form of "chords" by pressing several keys…
- chosen-ciphertext attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any ciphertext of their liking and decrypt it into the…
- chosen-plaintext attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies on the attacker's ability to choose any plaintext of their liking and encrypt it into the…
- Christiansen effect noun The reduced scattering of multi-phase microstructures at wavelengths where their refractive indices match.
- Christiansen filter noun A narrow bandpass or monochromatic optical filter which consists of an optical cell which is filled with a crushed substance (e.g. glass)…
- Christmas tree noun A panel of indicator lights in an aircraft or a submarine.
- Christmas tree effect noun The phenomenon where an aircraft's radar with limited directional capabilities receives strong echoes from the ground, swamping target…
- chromatic adj Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
- chromatic aberration noun An optical aberration in which an image has coloured fringes, caused by differential refraction of light of different wavelengths.
- chromatics noun The science of colours; the branch of optics that deals with the properties of colours.
- chromatism noun chromatic aberration
- chrome noun The basic structural elements used in a graphical user interface, such as window frames and scroll bars, as opposed to the content.
- Chromebox noun a generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style personal computer (this style of PC is the size of a home modem or home network router)
- chromeless adj Without chrome (basic visual elements).
- chronograph verb To make an accurate measurement of the speed of a projectile.
- chroot verb To change the apparent root directory for a running process, affecting whether or not it can access certain files etc.
- chuck noun A mechanical device that holds an object firmly in place, for example holding a drill bit in a high-speed rotating drill or grinder.
- chuckable adj Suitable for being secured in a chuck.
- chumming noun The use of a lit aeroplane to draw enemy fire so that the enemy can be destroyed by another aeroplane whose lights are off.
- chunk noun A discrete segment of a file, stream, etc. (especially one that represents audiovisual media); a block.
- chunker noun A software tool for dividing text into chunks.
- chunking noun The division of memory or data etc. into smaller units for easier processing.
- chunklet noun A group of data points belonging to the same constraint cluster.
- chunkwise adj In terms of chunks; one chunk of data at a time.
- chuntey noun A supposed aura surrounding the cassette loading mechanism of the ZX Spectrum computer, highly sensitive to disruption, which will cause…
- Church-Rosser property noun The property of a rewriting system for which x stackrel *↔y implies x mathbin ↓y for all objects x, y.
- churn noun The time when a consumer switches his/her service provider.
- cilly noun Any predictable facet of the Enigma Machine cipher due to operator error or laziness, whose existence helped the Allies to break the code.
- cinch noun An RCA connector.
- cipher noun A cryptographic system using an algorithm that converts letters or sequences of bits into ciphertext.
- ciphertext-only attack noun An attack on a cryptosystem that relies only on the attacker's knowledge of some ciphertexts encrypted with that system and key. Less…
- circle of confusion noun An optical spot caused by a cone of light rays from a lens not coming to a perfect focus when imaging a point source.
- circuit noun Enclosed path of an electric current, usually designed for a certain function.
- circuit breaker noun An electrical switch capable of opening and closing an electrical circuit in all operating conditions, including fault situations.
- circuit rider noun A computer consultant who advises non-profit organizations.
- circuit topology noun The form of an electronic circuit taken by the network of its components.
- circulation time noun The amount of time required for mud to circulate from the suction pit, enter into the wellbore and then return to the surface.
- circulator noun A passive electronic component with three or more ports, in which the ports can be accessed in such a way that when a signal is fed into…
- circulatory system noun The parts of a machine responsible for the circulation of some fluid.