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 15 of 91: from “circumposition” to “cockhead”.
- circumposition noun The act of positioning something around something else; or the state of being so positioned
- cisoid noun Complex sinusoid or complex exponential.
- citizen noun A notional inhabitant of a software system; an object or a software application.
- clack valve noun A valve; especially one hinged at one edge, which, when raised from its seat, falls with a clacking sound.
- clairvoyant adj Relating to a form of parallel processing algorithm given advance information about the problem.
- clamp noun An electronic circuit that fixes either the positive or the negative peak excursions of a signal to a defined value by shifting its DC…
- clamper noun A circuit that restricts the amplitude of a waveform.
- class adapter pattern noun An adapter pattern where the adapter is created by implementing or inheriting both the interface that is expected and the interface that is…
- class diagram noun A type of static structure diagram that describes the structure of a system by showing the system's classes, their attributes, and the…
- class-based adj Structured by defining classes of objects.
- class-based language noun A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning classes instead of using objects as prototypes.
- classful adj Of or relating to a network-addressing architecture that divides the address space into a number of classes.
- classical cipher noun A cryptographic algorithm was used historically and are easy to solve by hand or using modern technology.
- classical computer noun A computer which is not a quantum computer, nor enjoys any other sort of (yet unknown) mechanism for transcending known computer science; a…
- classifier noun A program or algorithm that classifies.
- classifying morphism noun A morphism from an object to the subobject classifier which corresponds to a unique subobject of the said object, which subobject is the…
- clause noun A constituent (component) of a statement or query.
- clay noun A clay pigeon.
- CLDC noun Connected limited device configuration
- clean verb To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- clean code noun Non-redundant software code comprising of focused task-specific modules and functions, written in a systematic manner so that another coder…
- clean feed noun The setup of a mixing console or matrix mixer such that the output contains everything except a designated input; often used to prevent…
- clean URL noun A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately…
- cleanroom verb To copy (a design) by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any copyrights.
- clear verb To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
- clearance hole noun A hole through an object which is large enough to enable threads of a screw or bolt to pass through but not the head of the screw or bolt.…
- clearance space noun In a steam engine, the space enclosed in one end of the cylinder, between the valve and the piston, at the beginning of a stroke, including…
- clearance time noun The amount of time from when a pilot requests the right to land at an airport and the tower allows the pilot to land.
- clearing noun A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.
- clearway noun An area projecting from the end of a runway that is kept clear of obstructions exceeding a height that increases with distance from the end…
- cleave noun Flat, smooth surface produced by cleavage, or any similar surface produced by similar techniques, as in glass.
- clench noun A seal that is applied to formed thin-wall bushings.
- click verb To press and release (a button on a computer mouse).
- click of death noun A clicking sound produced by the unexpected movement of the read-write actuator in a Zip drive or hard drive, associated with hardware…
- clickability noun The quality of being clickable, of causing a particular action when clicked
- clickable noun Any element that can be clicked by the user.
- clickjacking noun A malicious technique whereby part of a webpage is covered by transparent or misleading content that receives the user’s mouse clicks, thus…
- clicko noun The inadvertent depressing of a computer mouse button on a wrong selection.
- clickwrap license noun A license which is implicitly agreed to when the user clicks on a particular user interface element, such as a button or link.
- client noun The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
- client-server adj describes computer software usually comprising a number of client modules, and a server module to which they are connected in some way. The…
- client-side storage noun The practice of storing data on a user's device, such as a web browser rather than on a remote server.
- climbout noun The period after takeoff and before cruising, during which the aircraft climbs to a predetermined altitude.
- clinching noun The distortion of computer tape by wrinkling.
- clip verb To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- clip art noun A set of images, distributed as files with other software, that may be copied and pasted into documents or other files.
- clipboard noun A buffer in memory where the user can store data temporarily while transferring it from one place within an application to another or…
- clipper noun A circuit which prevents the amplitude of a wave from exceeding a set value.
- Clipper chip noun A microchip promoted by the US government in the mid-1990s as an encryption device to be used by all telecommunications companies, and…
- clipping noun The process of cutting off a signal level that rises above a certain maximum level.
- clobber verb To overwrite (data) or override (an assignment of a value), often unintentionally or unexpectedly.
- cloche noun An apparatus used in controlling certain aeroplanes, consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the…
- clock noun An electrical signal that synchronizes timing among digital circuits of semiconductor chips or modules.
- clock cycle noun The time between two adjacent pulses of the oscillator that regulates the tempo of the computer processor.
- clock out verb To transmit individual bits of data under the control of a clock.
- clock rate noun Synonym of clock speed.
- clock signal noun A signal that oscillates between a high and a low state and is used like a metronome to coordinate actions of digital circuits.
- clock skew noun A phenomenon in synchronous digital circuit systems in which the same sourced clock signal arrives at different components at different…
- clockable adj Of an ordinal such that an infinite-time Turing machine can complete in so many steps of computation.
- clocked adj Electronically running at a particular rate; governed by a repetitive time signal.
- cloner noun A software program that duplicates media.
- cloop noun A compression technology for Linux files stored on a read-only block device that allows files to be decompressed on the fly.
- close verb To move to a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- close out verb To terminate a computer program.
- closed adj In a position preventing fluid from flowing.
- closed beta noun A testing arrangement in which a beta test version of software is distributed to a small group of testers.
- closed platform noun A computing system where the manufacturer retains monopolistic control over installation, distribution, and use of software and services.
- closed shop noun A facility that runs programs on behalf of others, giving them no oversight over execution but merely returning the output at the end.
- closed source adj Whose constituent makeup, or source code, is not made publicly available.
- closed system noun A physical system whose interaction with its environment is limited to particular types of transfer, so that certain quantities are…
- closing form noun A method to end an implemented functionality.
- closure noun An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular…
- cloud noun A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).
- cloud computing noun Computing services provided over the Internet (or the “cloud”), whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to…
- cloud storage noun A model of computer data storage in which data, said to be in the cloud, is stored remotely in logical pools and is accessible to users…
- cloud suck noun An atmospheric phenomenon which produces extreme lift in a thermal updraft from underneath a cumulus cloud, which may suck the aviator and…
- cloudification noun The conversion and/or migration of data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
- cloudify verb To convert and/or migrate data and application programs in order to make use of cloud computing.
- cloudlet noun A small-scale cloud data center deployed at the edge.
- cloudy adj Using or relating to cloud computing.
- clue card noun A printed card with basic entries listed for a global distribution system.
- cluon noun The imaginary elementary particle of cluefulness; the anti-particle to the bogon.
- cluster noun A group of computers that work together.
- clustered adj Used as the clustering key of a clustered index.
- clustered index noun a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.
- clustering noun The undesirable contiguous grouping of elements in a hash table.
- CM noun Initialism of command module.
- co-host verb To store data on a shared server (as in web hosting).
- co-occurrence network noun A text analysis method that visually represents relationships among entities based on their co-occurrence in electronic text.
- co-recursive adj Describing a definition, particularly of an algorithm, given in terms of its output, rather than its input.
- co-recursively enumerable adj Describing a set for which there exists a deterministic algorithm that will list all items not in that set.
- coachmark noun A highlight or underline etc. indicating part of the user interface, to aid the user in learning how to use the system.
- coalesce verb To bond pieces of metal into a continuous whole by liquefying parts of each piece, bringing the liquids into contact, and allowing the…
- coarray noun A variable declared with a codimension.
- coaster noun A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
- coaxial cable noun A transmission line, consisting of a conducting wire surrounded by an insulated spacer, surrounded by a cylindrical conducting sheath; used…
- cockade noun An emblem of concentric circles of different colours, identifying the country to which an aircraft belongs.
- cocked adj Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
- cockeye noun The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead.
- cockhead noun The rounded or pointed top of a grinding mill spindle, forming a pivot on which the stone is balanced.