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 29 of 91: from “external coupling” to “fiber”.
- external coupling noun A coupling where two modules share an externally imposed communication protocol, data format, or device interface.
- extranet noun A private computer network that uses Internet protocols and can be accessed by authorized individuals via the Internet.
- extreme programming noun A software engineering methodology that promotes agility and simplicity, typically involving pair programming and a cycle of frequent…
- eye pattern noun An oscilloscope display of a data signal passed through a transmission line, clocked synchronously to the data symbols; used to analyze the…
- eyebar noun A straight bar, usually of metal, with a hole or "eye" at each end to allow it to be fixed to other components.
- F Lock noun A lock key that toggles the behaviour of the function keys between their traditional (application-defined) behaviours and a set of new…
- FAAMG noun One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.
- FAANG noun One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google.
- fab intj Used to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood.
- fabric noun Interconnected nodes that look like a textile fabric when diagrammed.
- facade noun An object serving as a simplified interface to a larger body of code, as in the facade pattern.
- facade pattern noun A structural design pattern that provides an object that is a simplified interface to a larger body of code, such as a class library.
- face verb To make the surface of (anything) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); especially, in turning, to shape or…
- facemail noun Face-to-face communication, as opposed to other non-personal forms of communication.
- facet noun A criterion that can be used to sort and filter, such as the colour or size of products in an online store.
- facing noun A powdered substance, such as charcoal or bituminous coal, applied to the face of a mould, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a…
- fact noun An individual value or measurement at the lowest level of granularity in a data warehouse.
- factor through verb Said of a morphism: to be equal to a composition of two morphisms, one of which is the given morphism (that is being said to be "factored…
- factory noun In a computer program or library, a function, method, etc. which creates an object.
- factory class noun A class that creates an object having a non-trivial creation process, implementing the factory method pattern.
- factory head noun The head formed when a rivet is manufactured, as opposed to the shank (or bucktail), the end of which will be upset to form the field head…
- factory method pattern noun A creational design pattern that decouples the object creation by using an abstract method in the class.
- factory reset noun A process that restores an electronic device to its factory setting by erasing all user data and personalized configurations.
- fade in verb To commence with silence in a song and then slowly increase the volume of the music until the intro of the song is over.
- fade out verb To decrease in volume, such as at the end of a song, until there is only silence.
- fade time noun The time during which a wireless signal is too faint to be accurately received.
- fader noun A program or algorithm for fading out colors.
- fag noun In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric.
- Fagan inspection noun A structured process of trying to find defects in source code, specifications, and other design documents.
- fail fast verb To report immediately any condition likely to cause a failure, rather than attempting to continue.
- fail over verb To automatically switch processing from a failed component in a critical system to its live spare or backup component.
- failback noun The restoration of a system in a state of failover back to its original state (before the failure occurred).
- failover noun An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical…
- failure rate noun The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.
- fair cake-cutting noun A kind of fair division problem in which there is a divisible heterogeneous resource that must be divided among several partners in a…
- fair division noun the problem of dividing a set of resources among several people who have an entitlement to them, such that each person receives their due…
- faithful functor noun A functor which maps morphisms from its source to its target category in such a way that the restriction of that mapping to any source…
- fall over verb Of a computer program or system, to crash.
- fall through noun In certain programming constructs, the situation where execution passes to the next condition in a list unless explicitly redirected.
- fall time noun The amount of time taken for the amplitude of a pulse to decrease from a specified value to another specified value.
- faller noun A part which acts by falling, such as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.
- falling leaf noun An aerobatic maneuver, a controlled stall that begins to induce a spin which is then countered with the rudder.
- false verb To incorrectly decode noise as if it were a valid signal.
- false sharing noun A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not…
- falsework noun A temporary framework used in the building of bridges and arched structures in order to hold items in place until the structure is able to…
- fam trip noun A free (or low cost) trip for travel agents or consultants, provided by a travel operator or airline as a means of promoting their service.
- family tree noun A data structure that organizes resources or machines in a distributed system, consisting of nodes connected by edges, in which each node…
- fan verb To perform a maneuver that involves flicking the top rear of an old-style gun.
- fan marker noun An obsolescent type of marker beacon, usually used to mark en route airways but occasionally used as part of a non-precision approach…
- fanjet noun Synonym of turbofan (“type of jet engine”).
- fanning noun A shooting technique in which the shooter uses one hand to hold a revolver and pull the trigger, while using the other hand to cock the…
- far adj Outside the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.
- far field adj Of or pertaining to the far field.
- fare basis noun An alphanumeric or alphabetic code used to indicate the type of fare used on an airline ticket, even if the fare is not shown.
- fare ladder noun a breakdown of destinations, airfare, taxes, and surcharges, shown on a paper ticket in a vertical multi-column format.
- farm noun A group of coordinated servers.
- fascine knife noun A large, heavy knife or short sword used by 17th- to 19th-century artillery and infantry soldiers as a sidearm and a tool for cutting…
- fast adj Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
- fast busy signal noun An audible signal on a voice phone line that sounds more frequently than a standard busy signal, indicating that no transmission path to…
- fast reactor noun A nuclear reactor with no moderator, using fast neutrons directly in a controlled fission chain reaction without slowing them down…
- fast telegram noun A telegram sent during either the day or night at a full rate for immediate delivery, typically with a minimum charge for 10 words or less.
- fat noun Acronym of file allocation table.
- fat lava noun A style of gaudy, vibrant, pottery decoration, common in West Germany from the 1950s to the 1970s.
- fat tax noun The additional airfare charged to obese individuals who take up more than one seat on an aeroplane.
- FAT16 noun The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a…
- FAT64 noun exFAT.
- fatal noun A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.
- fatal system error noun An error that occurs when an operating system halts, because it has reached a condition where it can no longer operate safely.
- father noun The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- fatigue noun Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of…
- fault verb To undergo a page fault.
- fault injection noun A technique for testing a computer system by subjecting it to unusual stresses, such as high voltage or temperature, or the deliberate…
- favicon noun An icon associated with a particular website, and typically displayed in the address bar of a browser viewing the site.
- feather verb To streamline the blades of an aircraft's propeller by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is shut…
- featherable adj Of a propeller: capable of having its blades streamlined by rotating them perpendicular to the axis of the propeller when the engine is…
- feathered adj Having a finely bevelled edge.
- feature noun A beneficial capability of a piece of software.
- feature control frame noun A compact rectangular box in an engineering drawing conveying tolerance information on a certain feature.
- featurization noun The development of additional features.
- federated adj Interconnected, as a federation or supernetwork of independent and interoperable services.
- federation noun A collection of network or telecommunication providers that offer interoperability.
- federator noun A component that integrates access to various services.
- feechur noun An undesirable or misimplemented feature (software or hardware capability).
- feed drive noun A drive mechanism for CD-ROMs etc in which no tray is used; the medium is inserted in a slot and is pulled in
- feed through noun A hermetically sealed connection between two volumes.
- feed zone noun The portion of a device in which material that is input through a feed tube or other portal accumulates before processing.
- feedback noun The part of an output signal that is looped back into the input to control or modify a system.
- feeder station noun A facility that takes power from the national grid and feeds it to overhead electrification lines on a railway.
- feedhole noun A hole through or into which something is fed.
- Feistel cipher noun A symmetric structure used in the construction of block ciphers. It is an iterated cipher with an internal function called a round function.
- female-to-male adj That changes a female end (usually a socket) of a connection into a male one (with pins, usually a plug).
- femtocell noun A wireless communication system, smaller than a picocell, typically designed for use in a home or small business.
- fence noun A memory barrier.
- Fenwick tree noun A data structure that maintains prefix sums over a list of numbers while allowing dynamic updates and queries in logarithmic time.
- Fermi problem noun Any estimation problem designed to teach dimensional analysis or the approximation of extreme scientific calculations: often a…
- ferroelectric shutter noun A shutter consisting of a slab of ferroelectric crystal located between polarizers whose planes are at right angles
- festoon noun A specific style of electric light bulb consisting of a cylindrical enclosure with two points of contact on either end providing power to…
- fetch noun An act of fetching data.
- fettle noun A seam line left by the meeting of mould pieces.
- fiber noun The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).