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 24 of 91: from “direct bank” to “dogtooth”.
- direct bank noun A bank that provides its services exclusively through digital channels such as the Internet, mobile apps, email, etc.
- direct drive noun A mechanism where the force or torque from a prime mover is transmitted directly to the effector device (such as the drive wheels of a…
- direct limit noun a colimit
- direct product noun A high-level generalization of the preceding that applies to objects in an arbitrary category and produces a new object constructable by…
- directed acyclic word graph noun A data structure that represents a set of strings and allows for a query operation that tests whether a given string belongs to the set in…
- direction indicator noun An instrument that shows both the current heading and the desired heading needed to follow a predetermined course.
- directive noun A construct in source code that indicates how it should be processed but is not necessarily part of the program to be run.
- directivity noun A measure of the performance of an antenna compared to an isotropic antenna; the ratio of the maximum value of radiation intensity to the…
- director noun A component of a Yagi–Uda antenna.
- directory noun A structured listing of the names and characteristics of the files on a storage device.
- directory service noun The software system that stores, organizes and provides access to information in a map between names and values.
- dirigible noun A self-propelled airship that can be steered.
- dirty adj Containing data needing to be written back to memory or disk.
- dirty code noun Software code that has had many editors with conflicting styles, making it nearly impossible to maintain.
- disable verb To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
- disambiguator noun A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used
- disassemble verb To convert machine code to a human-readable, mnemonic form.
- disassembler noun A computer program that examines another computer program and attempts to generate assembly language source code that would, in theory…
- disassembly noun The code generated by a disassembler.
- disbond noun A delaminated area of a layered material.
- disc verb To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airflow and maximizing the drag…
- discard noun A temporary variable used to receive a value of no importance and unable to be read later.
- discharge verb To release (an accumulated charge).
- disconnector noun A switching device used to open an electric circuit when there is no current through it. They are used to isolate a part of an electrical…
- discrete adj Having separate electronic components, such as individual diodes, transistors and resistors, as opposed to integrated circuitry.
- discrete component noun a component with just one circuit element, either passive (resistor, capacitor, inductor) or active (transistor or vacuum tube).
- discretization noun The act of discretizing, or dividing a continuous object or spectrum into a finite number of discrete elements
- discretize verb To convert (a continuous space) into an equivalent discrete space, often for the purposes of easier calculation.
- dish noun A type of antenna with a similar shape to a plate or bowl.
- disintegrating link noun A pressed metal or plastic link, used to join cartridges for a machine gun, which is expelled when the cartridge is removed during loading.
- disjoint set noun A data structure used to store such sets and perform operations on them efficiently.
- disk verb To move towards, or operate at, zero blade pitch, orienting the propeller blades face-on to the oncoming airstream and maximizing the drag…
- disk access time noun The total amount of time required for an operating system to process a read-write request involving disk storage.
- disk buffer noun A buffer onboard a secondary storage device (disk) used to temporarily hold data being read from or written to it.
- disk operating system noun A type of computer operating system that requires a disk drive for secondary storage to manage files and load programs.
- disk pack noun A rigid cylindrical device having a center spindle and one or more steel plates with a magnetic coating, used to store and retrieve…
- diskette noun A small, flexible, magnetic disk for storage and retrieval of data.
- disklabel noun A record on a hard disk or other storage device, holding information about the location of the partitions on the disk.
- dismount verb To make (a mounted drive) unavailable for use.
- disown verb To detach (a job or process) so that it can continue to run even when the user who launched it ends his/her login session.
- dispatch noun The passing on of a message for further processing, especially through a dispatch table.
- dispatcher noun A piece of software responsible for assigning priorities and resources to tasks waiting to be scheduled.
- displacement noun The transfer of electricity along tubes of induction and thereby polarizing a dielectric.
- displacement current noun The direction and rate of change of the electric displacement field at a given point of space and time. It can be expressed as a vector.
- displacement mapping noun A method for adding detail to surfaces by subdivision and displacement of the resulting vertices from a heightmap.
- display noun An electronic screen that shows graphics or text.
- disreef verb To allow (a reefed parachute) to fully open.
- distance fog noun A gradient that progressively obscures objects as they get further from the camera, typically used to avoid the processing overhead of…
- distortion noun An aberration that causes magnification to change over the field of view.
- distributable noun A software component that can be distributed.
- distributed adj Involving numerous separate computers or entities, rather than the traditional one.
- distributed ray tracing noun A form of ray tracing that averages a number of rays across an interval, allowing for the rendering of soft or blurry phenomena.
- distribution noun A set of bundled software components.
- distributional semantics noun A field of research focused on quantifying and categorizing the semantic similarities between linguistic items.
- distributional–relational database noun A type of database management system that enhances the semantics of structured data by using distributional word-vector representations.
- distro noun A set of software components, often open source, that have been packaged into a larger product or component for distribution to end-users.
- distro-hopping noun The process of frequently changing the operating system of one's computer to a different distribution of Linux.
- dit noun decimal digit
- ditch verb To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water.
- dither verb To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
- dithered adj Produced by dithering; consisting of bits in different colors placed side by side to simulate an intermediate color that is not in the…
- div noun A function, implemented in many programming languages, that returns the result of a division of two integers.
- dive noun Aerial descent with the nose pointed down.
- divebomb verb Of an aircraft, to bomb while in a steep dive.
- diverter noun A device for forwarding calls to another telephone line.
- divide and choose noun A procedure for envy-free fair cake-cutting in which one person divides a heterogeneous resource in two and the other person chooses one of…
- divide and conquer noun An algorithm design technique that solves a problem by splitting it recursively into smaller problems until all of the remaining problems…
- division noun Any of the four major parts of a COBOL program source code.
- divitis noun The practice of authoring web-page code with many div elements in place of meaningful semantic HTML elements.
- DjVu noun A file format intended to represent electronic documents, particularly scanned text.
- dl noun Download; Alternative form of DL.
- DM noun Initialism of dimensional modeling.
- do loop noun A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is executed repeatedly depending on the value of a Boolean…
- do-ocratic adj Relating to or involving do-ocracies ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").
- do-ocratically adv In the manner of a do-ocracy ("an organization in which power is held by those who do the most work").
- do-while loop noun a construction in which a series of commands are performed once initially, and then repeatedly for as long as a specified condition…
- dock verb To move a spaceship into its dock/berth under its own power.
- dock connector noun A connector used to attach a mobile electronic device simultaneously to multiple external resources.
- docketing software noun Software for use in scheduling legal matters, for example ex parte proceedings, litigation, and other legal matters.
- docking noun The process of connecting one spacecraft to another.
- docking port noun The physical connection interface on a laptop or device where the docking station or other peripherals can be connected.
- docking station noun A piece of hardware that expands the connectivity of a laptop or mobile device by linking it to peripherals such as monitors, keyboards…
- docs noun documentation
- docstring noun A string literal specified in source code that is used, like a comment, to document a specific segment of code, but remains available at…
- doctype noun A directive that associates an SGML or XML document (such as a webpage) with a Document Type Definition, potentially affecting how it is…
- document noun A file that contains text.
- document retrieval noun The matching of a user query against a set of free-text records, including unstructured text, such as newspaper articles, real-estate…
- documentation noun Documents that explain the operation of a particular machine or software program.
- dog noun A cock, as of a gun.
- dog food noun Beta software that is tested on the developer’s own computer.
- dog tooth noun A sharp zig-zag pattern on the leading edge of a wing which increases the vorticity over the wing and reduces spanwise flow.
- dogcow noun A creature resembling a dog and a cow, used as a placeholder image in early Macintosh operating systems.
- dogfight noun A twisting turning battle between two or more military aircraft, especially between fighters.
- dogfighting noun Close combat between two military aircraft.
- dogfood verb To eat one's own dog food, to use products developed by oneself or by one’s own company as end users.
- doghead noun That part of a matchlock or flintlock gun or rifle that holds the burning fuse or flint and applies it to the gunpowder.
- doghouse plot noun A chart showing the relationship between speed at level flight and altitude (or sometimes other variables).
- dogpile noun A cache stampede.
- dogship noun An experimental model of an aircraft.
- dogtooth noun Alternative form of dog tooth, a jagged leading edge of a wing.