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 16 of 91: from “coclass” to “commutate”.
- coclass noun A class that implements a COM (Common Object Model) interface.
- cocoa powder noun A form of brown gunpowder, also known as brown powder.
- cocone noun The dual of a cone; an object V together with an arrow going from each object of a diagram to V such that for any arrow A in the diagram…
- coconstant morphism noun A morphism which yields the same morphism when pre-composed with either one of a parallel pair of morphisms.
- code verb To write software programs.
- code block noun A block of source code, often one that is delimited by brackets or in some similar way, depending on the programming language.
- code cave noun A sequence of null bytes in a process's memory, offering the capacity for the injection of custom instructions by a hacker.
- code completion noun Autocompletion of source code.
- code coverage noun A measure of the degree to which the source code of a program is executed when a particular test suite is run.
- code face noun The place where programmers develop source code (as opposed to conceptually distant areas such as design and marketing).
- code fence noun A delimiter for a fenced (enclosed) code block, generally consisting of three consecutive backticks (Markdown) or tildes on the preceding…
- code folding noun A feature in many code editors that allows blocks of code to be "folded"; i.e. collapsed or hidden such that they can be shown again later.
- code golf noun A recreational computer programming competition in which participants attempt to write the shortest possible source code to implement a…
- code morphing noun The obfuscation of intermediate-level code (such as compiled Java or .NET languages) by breaking it up into smaller sequences and replacing…
- code point noun A numerical offset in a character set, etc., as opposed to a displayed grapheme or character, which can be composed of several code points.
- code review noun The practice, or an instance, of identifying and verifying the choice of algorithms, coding styles and compliance with the software design.
- code rot noun Synonym of bit rot: the development of bugs and incompatibilities of software due to changes in its environment, etc.
- code signing noun the attachment of a digital certificate (from a certification authority) to an executable program to ensure its legitimacy
- code unit noun A minimum bit combination that can represent a single character in a given character encoding, such as 7-bit in classic ASCII or 8-bit in…
- code-behind noun A technique in object-oriented programming in which the visual and back-end source code are stored in separate files, allowing designers…
- code-first adj Of a software development approach, where the database schema is created based on code written by developers rather than designing the…
- codebook noun A book, table, database, or other object that stores the mapping between plaintext words or phrases and their equivalents in a code.
- codec noun A device or program capable of performing transformations on a data stream or signal.
- codepage noun A mapping to a particular character set, where there are several possible sets that share the same code points.
- coder noun A programmer (computer programmer).
- codeshare noun An agreement whereby an airline buys space on another airline and markets the extra space as its own. Often used to increase a route…
- codeword noun A string representing an encoded piece of text.
- codimension noun A scope that indicates another variable of the same name and type is assigned to the local memory of each image.
- coding time noun The amount of time required from the first commit, to a branch, eventually the submission of a pull request.
- coequalize verb to postcompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
- coequalizer noun An arrow whose domain is the codomain of a parallel pair of arrows and which forms part of the colimit of that parallel pair.
- coerce verb To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type.
- coercibility noun The ability of a string to override the collation of another string.
- coercion noun Conversion of a value of one data type to a value of another data type.
- cofferdam noun A temporary watertight enclosure used to create a dry foundation for building bridges and other structures over water.
- coffin corner noun A situation in which the aircraft cannot increase or decrease its airspeed without stalling or buffeting.
- cofilament noun A diagram in a category that is indexed by a directed set.
- cofree adj Right adjoint to a forgetful functor G; such that any map f:G(A)→X induces a universal map ̄f:A→F(X).
- cofunction noun A costatement that takes the form of a function and can accept parameters and return a value.
- cohesion noun Degree to which functionally related elements in a system belong together.
- cohost verb To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).
- coil noun A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow.
- coinversion noun The inversion operation of a cogroup object. A coinversion must satisfy the dual versions of the axioms for group objects.
- coke verb To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion.
- coker noun cokernel
- cokernel noun The coequalizer of f and the zero morphism from X to Y, denoted operatorname cokerf.
- cold adj Rarely used or accessed, and thus able to be relegated to slower storage.
- cold boot verb To reboot a computer by turning it off and on.
- cold boot attack noun A type of sidechannel attack in which somebody with physical access to a computer is able to retrieve encryption keys from a running…
- cold cathode noun A type of cathode that does not use a heating element to produce emission of cathode rays (electrons), beyond base thermionic emission…
- cold flow noun Low, ambient temperature creep;particularly affecting polymers or low-melting-point (typically nonferrous) metals.
- cold roll verb To roll metal in a temperature that is below its recrystallization point.
- cold shut adj Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; said of a forging or casting.
- cold work noun Any of several plastic deformations of metal (or other material) at relatively low temperatures.
- cold working noun The working of a metal (e.g., hammering, forging, rolling, swaging) at low temperatures, such as room temperature rather than furnace…
- colimit noun The dual of a limit; the cocone of a diagram through which any other cocone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
- collapse verb In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- collapsible noun A display element that can be collapsed to hide it from view.
- collar noun Any encircling device or structure.
- collation noun The specification of how character data should be treated stored and sorted.
- collator noun A program or algorithm that collates.
- collector noun The amplified terminal on a bipolar junction transistor.
- collision noun Clipping of naming collision.
- collision attack noun An attack on a cryptographic hash function that is able to find a hash collision (a pair of different inputs that have the same hash)…
- collision detection noun The process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.
- collisionless adj Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.
- collocation noun A service allowing multiple customers to locate network, server, and storage gear and connect them to a variety of telecommunications and…
- collocation extraction noun The automated process of identifying and extracting word combinations that frequently appear together in a given corpus.
- columnstore noun A database storage method that stores data tables by columns rather than rows, optimizing for analytical query performance.
- coma noun A defect characterized by diffuse, pear-shaped images that in an ideal image would appear as points.
- comatic adj Of or pertaining to coma (the distortion of a lens).
- comb filter noun A filter that adds a delayed version of a signal to itself, causing constructive and destructive interference.
- combat air patrol noun A patrolling force of fighter aircraft tasked with covering and screening a friendly asset (such as an aircraft carrier or a flight of…
- combi noun An aircraft adapted to carry either cargo or passengers, or both at once.
- combinational logic noun A form of digital circuit logic where the current outputs are entirely a function of the current inputs, without having a memory of…
- combined cycle adj using multiple propulsion techniques in an interlinked synergistic way to give improved performance
- combining form noun A character encoded with a sequence of other characters instead of a precomposed character.
- combo noun A combo box.
- combo box noun A widget that is a combination of a dropdown list or list box and a single-line textbox, allowing the user either to type a value directly…
- come along noun A type of hand-operated winch used, for example, to tighten straps, chains, or ropes.
- command noun A directive to a computer program acting as an interpreter of some kind, in order to perform a specific task.
- command language noun A domain-specific, interpreted langauge used primarily for job control and task automation within a computing environment.
- command line noun A shell, a command line interface; usually used with the definite article.
- command line interface noun A user interface in which the user interacts with the computer through lines of text instead of graphical images.
- command pattern noun A behavioural design pattern, in which an object is used to represent and encapsulate all the information needed to call a method at a…
- command-line interpreter noun A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming…
- comment noun A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to…
- commentable adj Capable of being marked with a comment.
- commentation noun The use of comments in source code.
- commercial adj Designating an airport that serves passenger and/or cargo flights.
- commie noun A Commodore computer.
- commit noun The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
- commit point noun In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to…
- committable adj Able to be committed as a transaction; able to be implemented as a whole or rolled back as a whole, so that no partial implementation can…
- committer noun A person who is authorized to make changes to source code or other material in a repository.
- common carrier noun A company providing public telecommunications facilities.
- common knowledge noun A special kind of knowledge for a group of agents, such that when all the agents in a group G know p, they all know that they know p, they…
- commonality noun A quality that applies to materiel or systems: (a) possessing like and interchangeable parts or characteristics enabling each to be…
- communications satellite noun An artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals by means of a transponder.
- commutate verb To reverse the direction of (a current).