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 3 of 91: from “airspace” to “antijoin”.
- airspace noun A specified portion of the atmosphere, especially that under the technical aviation control and/or jurisdiction of a particular state over…
- airwall noun The notional part of a network configuration which isolates computers physically from connection to a wider network such as the Internet.
- airway noun A flight path used by aeroplanes.
- airworthiness directive noun A regulation issued by the civil aviation authority of a country or region, generally in response to the discovery of an unsafe condition…
- Airy disk noun The bright central region of the diffraction pattern resulting from a uniformly illuminated circular aperture.
- Albany slip noun A glazing mixture made from a clay peculiar to the Upper Hudson Region of New York, used in some American stoneware pottery.
- albedo noun The fraction of incident light or radiation reflected by a surface or body, commonly expressed as a percentage.
- alchemy noun Any elaborate transformation process or algorithm.
- ALD noun Initialism of atomic layer deposition.
- Aldrin cycler noun A spacecraft which cycles between Earth and Mars, in its own orbit which intercepts both their orbits at times when the planets are at…
- alert noun Synonym of bell (“bell character”).
- alertable adj Capable of receiving and responding to notifications from other threads of execution.
- algorithmics noun The subdiscipline of informatics or computer science that studies algorithms.
- alias verb To assign an additional name to an entity, often a more user-friendly one.
- alien reproduction vehicle noun A purported advanced craft theorized to be built by humans using technology that mimics or is inspired by supposed extraterrestrial…
- align verb To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple…
- aligner noun A system that produces integrated circuits by precision photolithography.
- alignment noun A way of arranging DNA, RNA or protein sequences in order to identify regions of similarity.
- aliquot noun A portion of a total amount (of some substance or a sample or specimen thereof, usually a solution or suspension).
- alive adj Synonym of live.
- all-figure number noun A telephone number consisting purely of digits, introduced in the 1960s to replace numbers that began with an alphabetic code for the…
- all-in-one noun A desktop computer having all major components, including the display, built into a single unit.
- allegory noun A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalization of…
- alligator noun A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
- alligator clip noun A spring-loaded metal clip, usually attached to a wire and used to create a temporary electrical connection.
- allocate verb To reserve a portion of memory for use by a computer program.
- allocator noun A utility that allocates and deallocates a dynamic resource (usually memory).
- allocycle noun A cycle in rock formation whose major forces come from outside the formation via tectonics, volcanism, climate change, or other outside…
- allowance noun A planned deviation between an exact dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension.
- alpha noun The first versions of a program, usually only available to the developer, and only tested by the developer.
- alpha conversion noun One of the three rewrite rules of lambda calculus, in which a bound variable of a lambda term is replaced by another variable across its…
- alpha hinge noun On rotorcraft, a hinge perpendicular to the plane of rotor rotation about which the blades trail or lag.
- alpha layer noun An additional channel in a digital image or layer that stores transparency information for each pixel.
- alpha max noun The maximum angle of attack (AoA), maximum nose-up angle. The highest degree of displacement from (relative) horizontal (the airstream, not…
- alpha testing noun A process where a software application approaching full functionality is made available to a group of sophisticated users.
- alpha version noun An early preview version of a program or application, typically unstable, but useful to show what the product will do. Sometimes no more…
- alpha-beta filter noun An algorithm for data estimation and smoothing, closely related to Kalman filters, based on an approximation model with two internal…
- alpha-beta pruning noun An algorithm for pruning a search tree by eliminating any branch that is demonstrably inferior to a branch previously encountered.
- alphabet noun A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- alt noun A modifier key used to change (alternate) the function of other pressed keys.
- Alt Gr noun A keyboard key that can be pressed simultaneously with other keys to result in additional characters such as accented letters and currency…
- alt key noun A key on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used in combination to alter the function of other keys.
- Alt-F4 noun A keyboard shortcut in Windows that completely closes the application or a focused window.
- alt-tab noun A keyboard shortcut in Windows that switches between application-level windows, sorted by most recently active.
- alternate action noun A feature of certain computer keyboards where a pressed key remains depressed and actuated until it is pressed again.
- alternate aerodrome noun An aerodrome to which a flight may proceed if landing at the intended destination becomes impossible or inadvisable.
- alternating Turing machine noun A nondeterministic Turing machine containing a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the…
- alternation noun A construct in a regular expression that can match any of several specified subexpressions.
- altmode noun An escape character used as a data terminator in certain systems, sometimes displayed on screen as a dollar sign.
- ALU noun Initialism of arithmetic logic unit.
- aluminum shower noun The result of a midair collision of two aircraft.
- amalgam noun An alloy containing mercury.
- ambiance noun Of a three-dimensional model, a secondary color of a polygon that becomes more pronounced with shading.
- ambifix noun A string of characters used for both prefix and suffix.
- amble noun That which follows the preamble, by analogy.
- American forge noun A forge for the direct production of wrought iron, differing from the old Catalan forge mainly in using finely crushed ore and working…
- amoeba noun A large pattern with fluctuating edges typically made of whitespace.
- amortize verb To even out the costs of running an algorithm over many iterations, so that high-cost iterations are much less frequent than low-cost…
- amortized adj Of an algorithm, in which the costs of running it is evened out over many iterations.
- amortized constant time noun A class of algorithms in which the amortized time (the time per operation averaged over many operations) is constant, although for some…
- amplification noun Gain.
- amplifier noun An appliance or circuit that increases the strength of a weak electrical signal without changing the other characteristics of the signal.
- amplitude noun The horizontal line which measures the distance to which a projectile is thrown; the range.
- analog computer noun A computer (mechanical, electrical or other) that processes using continuously varying signals rather than digital, quantized, values.
- analyst noun A systems analyst.
- analytic function noun window function
- analyzer noun a type of polarizer
- anchor noun A line of code in a program which acts as a reference point for further code to be added immediately before or after, usually via copy and…
- anchor pylon noun A pylon that forms the endpoint of a high-power transmission line and uses horizontal insulators, necessary when interfacing with other…
- ancilla noun An ancilla bit
- androgynous adj Of a connector or docking port, able to connect to another connector or port of the same type, rather than being restricted to connecting…
- android noun A mobile phone running on Android OS.
- angle bracket noun Either of the inequality signs < and >, when used as brackets in programming languages and markup languages.
- angle of attack noun The angle between the chord line of an airfoil and the airflow over it; one of the determiners of the amount of lift produced by an airfoil.
- angle of incidence noun The angle that a straight line, ray of light, etc., meeting a surface, makes with a normal to the surface at the point of meeting.
- angry fruit salad noun A web page or user interface that is poorly designed and overuses color.
- anharmonic adj Exhibiting anharmonicity
- anhedral noun the downward slope of an aircraft’s wing
- anneal verb To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less…
- annotation noun Metadata added to a document or program.
- annulus noun In a well such as an oil well or water well: the space between a pipe or tube and any pipe, tube, casing, or sides of a hole surrounding it.
- anode noun An electrode, of a cell or other electrically polarized device, through which a positive current of electricity flows inwards (and thus…
- ANSI art noun A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System…
- answer back verb To issue echo characters, protocol responses, reflexive connection requests, etc.
- answer set programming noun A declarative, logic-based programming paradigm designed for solving complex combinatorial search and optimization problems.
- anteorbital adj Referring to the period before orbit is achieved.
- anthropize verb To imbue with anthropic qualities; to make human; to anthropomorphize.
- anti-feature noun Functionality originally intended as a feature, but perceived as a bug, annoyance, or infringement of freedoms by some or even most users.
- anti-G straining maneuver noun Any of various techniques to increase G-tolerance and reduce G-LOC incidences that involve emptying the lungs while straining the muscles…
- anti-shock body noun A pod, protuberance, or swelling used to adjust the variation in an aircraft's cross-sectional area along its length so as to better…
- antialias verb To smooth using antialiasing.
- antialiasing noun any technique that reduces the appearance of jagged edges in digital images caused by high-contrast borders between pixels.
- antiblocker noun A kind of software that disrupts the activity of viruses, etc. that attempt to block the activity of a computer.
- antibot adj Working to combat or defend against bots, especially malicious or disruptive ones.
- antibugging noun The strategy of writing code so as to minimise the possibility of error.
- anticathode noun The target at which electrons from the cathode in a CRT or x-ray tube are directed.
- anticoherer noun A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading…
- antifreeze noun A deicer, a heated glycol solution used to remove ice from the aerodynamic surfaces of an airplane, and to prevent icing while on the…
- antigame noun A strategy in which a player refuses to participate in a game or replaces it with a game with different rules.
- antijoin noun A type of join, denoted by ▷, such that R▷S yields only those tuples in R for which S has no corresponding tuple of the same value.