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 26 of 91: from “dropping point” to “electrogyro”.
- dropping point noun The temperature at which a grease passes from a semi-solid to a liquid state under specific test conditions.
- drum magazine noun A high-capacity cylindrical magazine for firearms, storing rounds of ammunition in a central spiral.
- dry adj Not using afterburners or water injection for increased thrust.
- dry fire verb To discharge a weapon without ammunition in the chamber.
- dry heater noun A torpedo engine powered by the burning of fuel with compressed air or oxygen, which does not inject water into the combustion chamber for…
- dry hole noun A hole drilled into the ground for oil or gas exploration which fails to yield enough oil or gas to justify the establishment of a well.
- dry lease noun A leasing agreement where an aircraft is provided without any additional services like crew, maintenance, or insurance.
- dry mass noun The mass of a rocket including its contents but without propellant.
- dry well noun An underground structure (for example, a pit filled with gravel) that disposes of unwanted water (most commonly surface runoff and…
- DTE noun Data Terminal Equipment
- DTM adj Synonym of D2M: Initialism of direct-to-mobile.
- DTP noun Initialism of desktop publishing.
- DTW noun Dynamic Time Warping, a pattern matching algorithm
- dual adj Being the dual of some other category; containing the same objects but with source and target reversed for all morphisms.
- dual-boot adj Having two operating systems available, such that either of them can be selected each time the computer is booted.
- dual-frequency adj Able to operate on two different electrical frequencies.
- duck typing noun A style of dynamic typing in which an object's current set of methods and properties determines the valid semantics, rather than its…
- dum dum noun A soft point or hollow point bullet, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more serious damage.
- dumb pipe noun In the context of mobile network operators, a simple network that, with a high enough bandwidth to transfer bytes between a customer's…
- dumb terminal noun A computer terminal consisting of a monitor (usually in monochrome) and keyboard, but (unlike a personal computer) having almost no…
- dummy noun An unused parameter or value.
- dump verb To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
- dump and burn noun A maneuver involving dumping and burning.
- dump core verb To generate a core dump.
- dumper noun A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
- dunder noun A double underscore, __.
- duobinary adj Being, or pertaining to, a bipolar encoding in which the ones are represented alternately by positive and negative voltages.
- duospace adj Of a typeface, having characters of only two widths, where the narrower width is typically half that of the wider width.
- duplex adj Of stainless steel: having a structure containing austenite and ferrite in roughly equal proportions.
- duplexer noun A device that enables communication in two directions over a single path.
- duralumin noun An alloy of over 90% aluminium, 4% copper and traces of manganese, magnesium, iron and silicon, widely used in the aircraft industry.
- Dutch roll noun An aircraft motion consisting of an out-of-phase combination of yaw and roll, especially prominent on sweptwing aircraft.
- duty noun The efficiency of an engine in work done per unit of fuel; particularly, the number of pounds of water which a steam pumping engine can…
- duty cycle noun The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.
- Dvorak adj Describing an optimized keyboard layout for the English language, in which the alphabet is arranged in the order PYFGCRL on the top row…
- dwell noun A period of time in which a system or component remains in a given state.
- dwell time noun The period of time that a system or element of a system remains in a given state.
- dwimmery noun A computer program's ability to sense the user's intentions rather than work according to a well-defined specification.
- dword noun A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus…
- DX noun Abbreviation of double precision.
- dycore noun A computational module within a numerical weather prediction or climate model that solves the fundamental equations governing atmospheric…
- dynafocal adj Of or pertaining to a particular kind of aircraft engine mount that gives directional support to a radial engine to reduce vibration.
- dynamic adj Happening at runtime instead of being predetermined at compile time.
- dynamic binding noun A form of binding that occurs at runtime, such as the resolution of a virtual method call to a specific subclass's implementation.
- dynamic dispatch noun A dispatch method where the implementation of a function or method is assigned during runtime, as it cannot be assigned during compile time.
- dynamic inconsistency noun A situation in which a decision maker's preferences change over time in such a way that a preference can become inconsistent at another…
- dynamic IP address noun An IP address which changes periodically, when each time a user connects to their internet service provider.
- dynamic programming noun An optimization method by which a problem having optimal substructure is recursively broken into simpler subproblems which are solved to…
- dynamic random access memory noun A form of random access memory that requires fewer transistors per bit than SRAM, but in which each bit needs to be refreshed regularly to…
- dynamic typing noun A system in which typechecking is performed at run time and not at compilation, opposed to static typing.
- dynamic-link library noun A software library containing some combination of code, data, and resources, capable of being loaded at run time and shared by multiple…
- dynamization noun Transformation of static data to dynamic ones.
- dynamo noun An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
- dynaset noun A data set taken from a larger database and linked back to it, so that local changes to the data are propagated back to the parent database.
- e- prefix Used to prefix items that are embedded into devices, instead of being discrete or removable elements.
- E-format noun A scientific notation for floating point numbers in which e.g. 51.75 would be represented as 0.5175E+02 (meaning 0.5175 × 10²)
- e-inclusion noun The promotion of computer use by all members of society, so as to avoid a reduction in opportunities for those who do not have or cannot…
- eager adj Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
- Early effect noun The variation in the effective width of the base in a bipolar junction transistor due to a variation in the applied base-to-collector…
- Easter egg noun An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- eat verb To consume (an exception, an event, etc.) so that other parts of the program do not receive it.
- eat one's own dog food verb To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.
- eater noun A configuration of cells that appears to consume another configuration by gradually causing it to disappear.
- eavesdropping noun The interception of electronic communication.
- eccentric noun A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
- echo verb To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- echo state network noun A type of reservoir computer that uses a recurrent neural network with a sparsely connected hidden layer. The weights of output neurons can…
- echoplex verb To echo received text characters back to the computer that sent them.
- economic equilibrium noun A situation where economic forces are balanced, and without external influences, the value of economic variables will not change.
- edge noun The point of data production in an organization (the focus of edge computing), as opposed to the cloud.
- edge computing noun The practice of processing or analyzing data at or near the point of data production rather than in a central processing facility requiring…
- edge control noun The management and manipulation of the edges of an aircraft's wings or control surfaces to enhance performance and stability.
- edge loop noun A set of connected edges across a surface, with the last edge usually meeting the first edge to form a loop.
- edge-triggered adj Describing a circuit or component which is either positive-edge-triggered or negative-edge-triggered.
- edgeware noun Computer software that is noticeably cutting-edge, that is, significantly innovative.
- edit noun A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- editor noun A program for creating and making changes to files, especially text files.
- educt verb To educe, to extract.
- effect noun An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
- effectful adj Implementing effects.
- efficiency noun The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Often given the symbol η.
- egg noun A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- egg timer noun An hourglass mouse pointer.
- eigenimage noun The set of eigenvectors used by a computer system in the recognition of an image (especially of a face).
- eigenSNP noun A mathematical abstraction of a single-nucleotide polymorphism that is associated with an eigenvector
- eigenvector noun A right eigenvector; given a matrix A, the eigenvector of the transformation "left-side multiplication by A."
- eight-ball noun A spherical attitude indicator.
- eikonometer noun An instrument for determining the magnifying power of a microscope
- eject verb To unmount (a drive).
- ejectable noun Any object that is ejected by a satellite while it is in space.
- ejector noun A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space.
- elaboration noun Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values of one or more of them determine others further…
- elastance noun The inverse of compliance.
- elasticity noun A measure of the flexibility of a data store's data model and clustering capabilities.
- elective adj Scheduled and nonemergent (regardless of whether necessary or unnecessary and whether minor or serious).
- electric current noun A net unidirectional movement of electrons, or other charge carriers, caused by a potential difference.
- electric field noun A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages, which exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.
- electric main noun The principal or main electrical supply line that distributes electricity from the utility grid to a building or home.
- electrical bus noun Synonym of bus (“an electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components”)
- electrogyro noun A unit that works first as a motor, taking energy from an electrical supply and converting it into kinetic energy which is stored in…