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 20 of 91: from “cue” to “data rate”.
- cue noun A marker or signal that triggers something, such as the start of an audio recording.
- cue sheet noun A text file that details the layout of tracks on a compact disc.
- cull verb To selectively not render or process certain objects, such as polygons.
- cultural adj Due to human activity.
- cumai noun A construction method for brazing steel sheets together by sandwiching copper sheets between them and performing an ersatz forge weld, for…
- cumulogranite noun Solid terrain, such as mountains, obscured by clouds and thus posing a risk to the pilot of an aircraft.
- cup verb To make concave or in the form of a cup.
- Cupertino effect noun The replacement, by a spell checker, of words that are real (such as proper nouns or alternate spellings), but missing from its internal…
- curation noun The manual updating of information in a database.
- cure noun A process whereby a material is caused to form permanent molecular linkages by exposure to chemicals, heat, pressure or weathering.
- Curie temperature noun The temperature at which the magnetism of a substance changes, specifically when a ferromagnetic material becomes paramagnetic.
- curiously recurring template pattern noun An idiom in which a class X derives from a class template instantiation using X itself as template argument.
- curlies noun Curly brackets.
- curly-bracket language noun A programming language whose syntax uses curly brackets to enclose blocks, such as C, C++, Java, or C#.
- currency adjustment factor noun (Formerly, no longer in use) An IATA defined amount used to adjust Fare Construction Units in international airfare calculations.
- currency sign noun A specific graphic symbol (¤) which replaced the dollar sign ($) in some international text encoding systems, starting with ISO 646.
- current noun Ellipsis of electric current.
- current divider noun A simple electronic circuit which reduces an input current by a fixed factor using sources of impedance (such as resistors) connected in…
- curry verb To perform currying upon.
- currying noun The technique of converting a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of functions that each take a single argument.
- curse of dimensionality noun A problem in the analysis of multidimensional systems caused by the sparse nature of the available data.
- cursor verb To navigate by means of the cursor keys.
- custom snowball noun A cascading chain reaction in which a single non-standard feature, modification, or workaround forces the creation of subsequent custom…
- cut verb To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- cut and cover noun A method of building a tunnel by digging a trench, constructing tunnel walls therein, and refilling the trench with earth.
- cut and paste verb To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.
- cut out noun A piece of clip art.
- cut sheet noun A document summarizing the performance and other technical characteristics of a product.
- cutaway adj Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.
- cutline noun In software testing, a hypothetical line that separates tests that will be performed from tests that may not be performed due to lack of…
- cutover noun The process of quickly replacing a telephone switchboard, in which the connections are duplicated to the new machine and the original…
- cutter and paster noun Anyone who copies text from one source and pastes it to another, using a computer.
- cutting noun The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- CV noun Initialism of constant velocity.
- CVE noun Initialism of collaborative virtual environment.
- cyber transport adj Synonym of networked (“computer networked”); pertaining to computer networks and computer networking
- cyberflashing noun The unsolicited sending of sexually explicit pictures of oneself to another person by means of a computer or telecommunication network.
- cyberinfrastructure noun The research environments that support advanced data acquisition, storage, management, integration, visualization etc. over the Internet.
- cyberterrorism noun The deliberate, large-scale disruption of networks of computers, especially of computers attached to the Internet, by means of viruses etc.
- cyberworld noun The world of intercomputer communication
- cybrary noun An online collection of reference material.
- cycle verb To turn power off and back on
- cycle sort noun A sorting algorithm based on the idea that the permutation to be sorted can be factored into cycles that can be rotated individually to…
- cycle time noun The total elapsed time to complete an operation or set of operations.
- cycler noun A, usually man-made, object that follows such an orbit.
- cyclic noun The flight control used to control a helicopter's direction and rate of horizontal movement by tilting the lift vector of the helicopter's…
- cyclic rate noun The rate at which an automatic firearm will fire if its firing mechanism is held down, causing the delay between successive shots to be the…
- cyclic redundancy check noun A type of hash function that produces a checksum used to detect and correct transmission errors in data.
- cycloconversion noun The modification of alternating current to a lower frequency without converting it to direct current.
- cycloconverter noun A device that modifies alternating current to a lower frequency without converting it to direct current
- cyclomatic adj Of or relating to a software metric that measures the complexity of a program based on the number of linearly independent paths through the…
- cyclomatic complexity noun A quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent paths (branches) through a program's source code which indicates the…
- cylinder noun The corresponding tracks on a vertical arrangement of disks in a disk drive considered as a unit of data capacity.
- cylinder-head-sector noun An addressing system of hard drives where the hard drive is addressed by its cylinders, heads, and sectors.
- d noun Abbreviation of data.
- D-sub noun an electrical connector with two or more rows of pins or sockets surrounded by a D-shaped metal shield
- D/L verb download
- daemon noun A process (a running program) that does not have a controlling terminal.
- daemonize verb Of a computer program or script, to prepare to go in to the background and become a daemon.
- dagger noun A stabbing weapon, similar to a sword but with a short, double-edged blade.
- daily driver noun A computing device or operating system that one uses on a frequent basis, especially as distinguished from those used temporarily or for…
- daisy chain verb To connect (several computer devices or peripherals, or other components) in sequence with each other, usually such that the output of one…
- daisywheel printer noun A printer that operates by striking the page with moulded characters from a rotating circular arrangement, obsolete since the late 1980s.
- Dakota noun Out of air-to-ground ordinance.
- Damascus barrel noun A gun barrel formed by twisting and welding strips of metal around a hard die; no longer commonly used now due to its inability to handle…
- dammit operator noun The operator ! in the C# programming language, used to indicate to the compiler that a possibly null reference will not be null at that…
- damper noun A shock absorber.
- damping noun The reduction in the magnitude of oscillations by the dissipation of energy.
- danaide noun A water wheel having a vertical axis and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both…
- dancing links noun A technique for reverting the deletion of a node from a circular doubly-linked list, particularly useful for efficiently implementing…
- dangling else noun A potential ambiguity in a programming language that occurs when an else clause can be associated with either a nested conditional or with…
- dangling pointer noun A pointer (variable that holds the address of a memory location) that does not reference a valid object.
- Dantzig-Wolfe decomposition noun An algorithm for solving linear programming problems with special structure, relying on delayed column generation for improving the…
- dap verb To create a hollow indentation.
- dark pattern noun A user interface that is intentionally designed to trick users into doing things that are not in their own best interest, such as giving up…
- Darlington pair noun A pair of transistors with the emitter of one connected to the base of the other and the collectors connected together, acting as a…
- dash noun A hyphen or minus sign.
- dashboard noun A graphical user interface for changing settings.
- dat noun Digital Audio Tape, a digital data storage tape format using a dual-spooled cartridge and magnetic tape, used for digital audio and data…
- data noun A representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted…
- data access object noun An object in programming that provides an abstract interface to some type of persistence mechanism, providing some specific data operations…
- data acquisition noun The process of sampling signals that measure real-world physical conditions and converting the resulting samples into digital numeric…
- data binding noun A general technique that binds together two data sources (or two separate representations of the same data) and keeps them synchronized.
- data bus noun A hardware subsystem that transfers data between components inside a computer, or between computers.
- data collection tree noun A network topology used to gather and aggregate data from a collection of sensor nodes into a single node, which then propagates the…
- data communications noun The movement of data between computers, or between central computers (especially mainframes) and remote terminals.
- data compression noun Any of several techniques for reducing the number of bits needed to represent an item of digital data, either to save storage or to use…
- data controller noun A clerk who scheduled batch jobs on a mainframe computer, and who distributed printed output
- data division noun The part of a COBOL program in which the format and layout of external files and databases, and internally-used variables and constants are…
- data entry noun The act of inputting data into a computer, such as by typing out handwriting, capturing data from scanned documents, taking responses from…
- data flow noun The route between origin, via nodes, to a destination taken by a packet of data
- data glove noun A glove containing sensors to detect movement of the hand and fingers, used to control a computer-generated virtual reality environment.
- data mining noun A technique for searching large-scale databases for patterns; used mainly to find previously unknown correlations between variables that…
- data model noun A result of applying a data modeling to some particular application, using a database model such as relational.
- data object noun A self-contained unit of information that represents a specific entity or interaction within a system.
- data path noun The part of a central processing unit that stores data to be immediately operated on and performs logic and arithmetic operations on it…
- data plane noun The part of a network that carries user traffic, as opposed to those parts handling network topology and signalling.
- data processing machine noun An accounting machine or tabulating machine.
- data race noun A problematic situation where one thread could potentially read or write a memory location while another thread is writing to it.
- data rate noun The speed at which data is sent over a data link or channel; generally expressed in bytes per second.