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 27 of 91: from “electron tube” to “equivalent”.
- electron tube noun Any of several electronic devices that control electron current through vacuum, gas or vapor between electrodes within a sealed container…
- electronic data interchange noun The electronic exchange of structured information, by agreed message standards, between applications with a minimum of human intervention.
- electronic flight bag noun An electronic information management device for an aircrew, including the operating manual, navigational charts, calculation facilities…
- electronic mail noun Email (the system).
- electrophoresis noun The migration of electrically charged molecules through a medium under the influence of an electric field.
- electroporation noun the creation of transient pores in the cell membrane, through the application of a high-voltage electrical pulse
- element noun One of the conceptual objects in a markup language, usually represented in text by tags.
- elementary cellular automaton noun A one-dimensional, two-state cellular automaton in which a cell's state in the next generation depends only on its current state and the…
- elementary spaceship noun Any spaceship, either naturally occurring or found with the aid of computer programs, that cannot be usefully analyzed as consisting of…
- elephant ear noun A section of aileron that protrudes beyond the wing.
- elephant walk noun The taxiing of multiple aircraft in close formation before a mass take-off.
- elevate verb To temporarily grant a program additional security privileges to the system to perform a privileged action (usually on the program's…
- elevated adj Running with administrator rights.
- elevator noun A control surface of an aircraft responsible for controlling the pitching motion of the machine.
- elevator authority noun The degree of control that the elevators can exert over the pitching motion of an aircraft; related to elevator design and airspeed.
- elevon noun A movable surface at the trailing edge of a tailless airplane (such as the space shuttle) that provides pitch and roll control.
- Elvis noun An Elvis operator.
- Elvis operator noun A binary operator that returns its first operand if that operand evaluates to true, and otherwise evaluates and returns its second operand.
- em noun A relative unit of sizing defined in terms of the font size.
- email noun A system for sending messages and datas by means of a computer network, primarily the Internet, using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and…
- email storm noun A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending reply all emails within a short period of…
- emailware noun Software whose users are encouraged to send the creator an e-mail message in lieu of payment or registration.
- embed verb To encapsulate within another document or data file.
- embedded system noun A computer system with a dedicated function within a larger mechanical or electrical system, often with real-time computing constraints.
- embedding noun An injective morphism in a concrete category which is also initial.
- eme adj Initialism of
- emergency landing noun A sudden landing of an aircraft, made in case of an on-board emergency or another reason requiring an immediate landing.
- emit verb To result in specific machine instructions or bytecode when compiled.
- emitter noun One terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
- emitter-coupled logic noun A logic family that achieves high speed by using an overdriven BJT differential amplifier with single-ended input.
- eMMC noun An embedded (“integrated, non-removable”) MMC (“MultiMediaCard”). An electronic memory module designed to be integrated into devices…
- emoji flag sequence noun An emoji sequence, consisting of a country code encoded using regional indicator characters, and representing a particular country or…
- emoji sequence noun A combination of characters that display a particular emoji.
- emoji ZWJ sequence noun A combination of emoji and control characters to display a particular emoji on supported operating systems.
- empty adj Containing no elements (as of a string, array, or set), opposed to being null (having no valid value).
- emulable adj That can be emulated.
- emulate verb of a program or device: to imitate another program or device
- emulation noun Execution of a program or other software designed for a different system, by simulating parts of the other system.
- emulator noun A piece of software or hardware that simulates another system.
- emuscene noun The subculture or community of people who use emulators to simulate the operation of one computer system on another.
- enable verb To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
- enabled adj Adapted for use with the specified mechanism or system.
- enaction noun The interpretation of consciousness or understanding as a process of meaningfully engaging and interacting with the world in a hierarchy of…
- encapsulate verb To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.
- encapsulation noun Grouping together an object’s ‘state’ (its data) and the operations that may alter or interrogate it (its methods).
- enclave noun An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
- encloser noun An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
- encoder noun A sensor which converts a position into an electronic signal.
- encoding noun The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes, e.g. in the rendering of a particular font, or in the mapping from keyboard input into…
- encrypt verb To transform information using encryption in a way that it is believed only authorized parties can decode.
- encryption noun The process of obscuring information to make it unreadable without special knowledge, key files, or passwords.
- end item noun (In an airline reservation system) a symbol, usually represented by the hash or plus key, used to join several lines of instruction…
- endian adj Preceded by a qualifying word: of a computer: storing multibyte numbers with the most significant byte at a particular memory address; for…
- endif noun A directive, in several programming languages, that marks the end of an if statement, especially one containing multiple if ... then ...…
- endmill noun A type of milling machine: a cutter (cutting tool used in machining) with cutting edges on both the end and sides.
- endorsement noun An instructor's signed acknowledgement of time practising specific flying skills.
- endplay noun Alternative form of end play.
- endpoint noun The entity at one end of a connection.
- engage verb To come into gear with.
- engaged tone noun An audible signal to the calling party that indicates failure to complete the requested connection; a busy signal.
- engine noun A software or hardware system responsible for a specific technical task (usually with qualifying word).
- engineered spaceship noun Any spaceship, often a large one, made of discrete parts that is designed through human effort, often through the aid of computer programs…
- engineering sample noun A non-final version of an integrated circuit meant for product development, validation, or demonstration purposes.
- engineering strain noun A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length, along some axis.
- engineering stress noun In a tensile test, the ratio of the applied force to the initial cross-sectional area of the tensile specimen (ignoring the gradual…
- English bunt noun An aerobatic maneuver consisting of a half of an outside loop starting from upright, and then straight and erect level flight.
- ENOTUITS intj A fictitious error code indicating that a person has run out of round tuits (i.e. they don't have any time to spare on the task being…
- enregister verb To store in a register of the CPU.
- enter noun Alternative spelling of Enter (“the computer key”).
- enterprise application integration noun The use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.
- enterprise architecture noun the disposition and interrelationship of all the management, information and computing systems within an organization
- enterprisey adj Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.
- entitize verb To convert a character into a character entity reference.
- entity noun Anything about which information or data can be stored in a database; in particular, one item in an organised array or set of individual…
- entity alignment noun The process of identifying entities that refer to the same real-world object in different knowledge bases.
- Entity Bean noun A type of Enterprise JavaBean, a server-side Java EE component that represents persistent data stored in a database.
- entity tag noun In the HTTP protocol, an identifier assigned to a version of a resource, such that if the resource’s content changes, it is given a new…
- entropy noun Shannon entropy
- entry point noun A location in a program or software library that can be called from outside, and from which the execution of code begins.
- enumerated adj Defined to consist of a specified list of possible values.
- enumeration noun A data type that allows variables to have any of a predefined set of values.
- envelope noun A curve that bounds another curve or set of curves, as the modulation envelope of an amplitude-modulated carrier wave in electronics.
- envelope detector noun An electronic circuit that takes a relatively high-frequency amplitude modulated signal as input and provides as output the demodulated…
- environment noun The software or hardware existing on any particular computer system.
- environment division noun The part of a COBOL program that specifies the hardware on which it is designed to run, the symbolic names to be used by files, and certain…
- environmental noun Any factor relating to the physical environment in which hardware is operated, such as the room temperature or the number of racks used to…
- ephemeron noun A type of weak reference in a garbage collected programming language that does not permit an object to be kept alive by its finalizer.
- epic noun A large or extended user story.
- epilogue noun A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to return from a routine.
- episcopic adj Describing an optical device in which light is reflected by (rather than traversing) the object being observed
- epoch noun A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- epsilon noun Something negligible or insignificant.
- epsilon-machine noun A deterministic automaton consisting of a system of causal states and the transitions between them, functioning as the smallest possible…
- equalising beam noun A steel beam linking the suspension of two or more adjacent axles of a vehicle with at least two axles, especially on railway locomotive…
- equalize verb to precompose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
- equalizer noun An electronic audio device for altering the frequencies of sound recordings.
- equate noun A statement in assembly language that defines a symbol having a particular value.
- equijoin noun A join whose predicate uses only equality comparisons.
- equisignal noun A merged signal composed of two separate signals of differing amplitudes, indicating that the aircraft is on course, in certain instrument…
- equivalent adj Of two categories, (informally) such that one is essentially a relabeling of the other; (formally) related by a pair of functors such the…