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 30 of 91: from “fiber bundle” to “flat design”.
- fiber bundle noun An abstract object in topology where copies of one object are "attached" to every point of another, as hairs or fibers are attached to a…
- fibre noun Said to be of a morphism over a global element: The pullback of the said morphism along the said global element.
- field noun An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- field coil noun An electromagnet, consisting of a coil of wire through which a current flows, used to generate a magnetic field in an electromagnetic…
- field emission display noun a flat panel display technology that uses large-area field electron sources to provide electrons that strike coloured phosphors to produce…
- field head noun The head formed by upsetting the bucktail of a rivet after it is inserted through the materials to be connected, as opposed to the factory…
- field lens noun a positive-powered lens or group of lenses that comes after the objective lens and before the image plane or the eyepiece, serving to…
- field of view noun The angular extent of what can be seen, either with the eye or with an optical instrument or camera.
- field stop noun The aperture that limits the field of view of a lens.
- field-programmable gate array noun a gate array designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing in the field, i.e. after manufacturing.
- fieldbus noun A member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control.
- fifteener noun A book or other printed item that was printed in the 15th century (thus, during the first half-century of printing).
- fifth normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in fourth normal form and every join dependency is implied by…
- fighter-bomber noun A military aircraft designed to operate in combined roles of attacking enemy aircraft and bombing targets; usually faster and more…
- file noun An aggregation of data on a storage device, identified by a name.
- file allocation table noun A table used internally by the operating system to keep track of the structure of a disk and where files are stored on it.
- file association noun The association of a file type with a program, so that the chosen program is the default for opening files of that type.
- file carving noun The process of reassembling computer files from fragments in the absence of file system metadata, based on the extrapolation of a file's…
- file descriptor noun A process-unique identifier for a file or other input/output resource, such as a pipe or network socket.
- file section noun The part of the data division of a COBOL program that describes the format of the logical records associated with external files to be…
- file sharing noun The process of making files available to others to download from the Internet.
- file shredder noun A software program designed to overwrite the contents of a data file (or other space on a disk) to prevent recovery of the file contents.
- file system noun A method of organizing blocks of data on a storage device into files and directories.
- filepath noun The location of a file in a directory structure. Also known as the path of a file. A path can be absolute or relative.
- filer noun A software program for managing files.
- filetype noun An identifier indicating the type of information contained in an electronic format.
- filler noun In COBOL, the description of an unnamed part of a record that contains no data relevant to a given context (normally capitalised when in a…
- fillet noun A rounded relief or cut at an edge, especially an inside edge, added for a finished appearance and to break sharp edges.
- fillrate noun A measurement of the number of pixels a video card can render in a certain time period.
- filmstrip noun A file containing a sequence of images or video frames.
- filter bank noun An array of band-pass filters that separates the input signal into multiple components, each one carrying a single frequency subband of the…
- final approach noun The last part of a landing before touchdown, involving a descending flight path directly in the direction of the runway.
- finalize verb To prepare (an object) for garbage collection by calling its finalizer.
- findability noun The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- finger noun Synonym of jet bridge: the narrow elevated walkway connecting a plane to an airport.
- finger tree noun A purely functional tree-like data structure offering amortized constant time access to its "fingers" (leaves), used for the efficient…
- finger-four noun A flight formation used by fighter aircraft. It consists of four aircraft, and four such formations can be combined into a squadron.
- fingerprint noun A unique identification for a public key in asymmetric cryptography.
- fini flight noun The final pilot-in-command, pilot-flying flight of a pilot during a stage of life, such as on a particular aircraft, aircraft type…
- finite-state machine noun A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one…
- finitely generated adj Such that the functor operatorname Hom_( mathcal )C(X,·) preserves those filtered colimits of monomorphisms.
- fire verb To operate a rocket engine to produce thrust.
- fire and forget noun The practice of transmitting or raising something, such as an event, and then proceeding without checking for any result or response.
- fire hose noun A feed of all updates to a website.
- fire up verb To launch; to run.
- fireball noun A bright glow caused by a spacecraft re-entering an atmosphere.
- firebrick noun The X11 color name of RGB hexadecimal value #B22222.
- fired adj Heated in a furnace, kiln, etc., to become permanently hardened.
- firing noun The process of applying heat or fire, especially to clay, etc., to produce pottery.
- firing pin noun The part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer in order to ignite the gunpowder.
- firm error noun A type of error where a signal or datum becomes wrong and remains wrong until the equipment is power-cycled, but does not physically damage…
- firmware noun A permanent form of software that provides a low-level control of computing device hardware.
- first angle projection noun A method of technical drawing where the front view of the object is placed in the first quadrant, the side view is to the left, and the top…
- first class adj Of or relating to a treatment like that for a first-class object.
- first in first out noun A type of queue data structure in which the oldest added items are retrieved first.
- first normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which repeating groups and attributes have been eliminated by putting each into a…
- first party adj Of products, created or published by the company responsible for the platform on which it is released (or its internal developers), as…
- first-chance exception noun An exception (error condition) when handled by a debugger, such that the programmer has the first chance to study it; such an exception…
- first-class citizen noun Synonym of first-class object.
- first-class continuation noun A continuation that can be used like any other value in a programming language, granting it a powerful ability to control the flow of…
- first-class object noun An entity that can be constructed at run-time, passed as a parameter, returned from a function, or assigned into a variable.
- first-fit adj Of or relating to a fast but non-optimal algorithm for the Bin packing problem, placing each item into the first bin in which it will fit.
- first-order hold noun A mathematical model of the practical reconstruction of sampled signals that could be done by a conventional digital-to-analog converter…
- fish noun A spaceship.
- Fisher-Yates shuffle noun A particular algorithm for generating an unbiased random permutation of a set. It selects elements randomly from the initial set until none…
- fission rocket noun A spacecraft having a fission reactor that powers the rocket.
- fit and finish noun Those features that are not essential functionality of the software, but are otherwise important or useful, such as localization or…
- fitting noun A (generally small) component or part of a device or machine, especially one that is standardized and replaceable; specifically, a…
- fix noun A non-waypoint terrain feature used to make a determination of location.
- fixation noun Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly).
- fixed point noun A fractional-number representation with a fixed number of digits after the decimal point. Compare floating point and integer.
- fixed-point number noun A representation of fractional numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part.
- fixity noun The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
- fixture noun A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
- flag noun A variable or memory location that stores a Boolean true-or-false, yes-or-no value, typically either recording the fact that a certain…
- flag carrier noun A national airline (typically having the flag, or other national insignia, on the tail).
- flag day noun A day designated for changing to an incompatible system.
- flake verb To store an item such as rope or sail in layers
- flambé adj Decorated by glaze splashed or irregularly spread upon the surface, or apparently applied at the top and allowed to run down the sides.
- flamberge noun A European sword, typically a greatsword, which had a wavy blade, possibly to increase the cutting surface or for aid in parrying.
- flame trench noun A diversion channel for rocket exhaust, directing it away from the launch pad, to prevent the exhaust from damaging the rocket or launch…
- flamegraph noun A visual representation of hierarchical data used to analyze system and application performance metrics.
- flamer noun One who flames, or posts vitriolic criticism.
- flange verb To make a flange on; to furnish with a flange; to bend (esp. sheet metal) in the form of a flange.
- flap noun A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
- flaperon noun An aircraft control surface at the trailing edge of a wing that acts as an aileron (controlling movement around the longitudinal axis) and…
- flapping noun The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by…
- flare verb To (operate an aircraft to) transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- flare path noun A runway (or simple field) that is illuminated at night, or during fog, to enable aircraft to land or take off safely.
- flare-nut wrench noun An open spanner (wrench) to tighten fragile nuts, such as flare nuts, not accessible to a ring spanner (box end wrench) or box spanner…
- flash noun Clipping of flash memory.
- flash cut noun A change made to a complex system with immediate effect, one made without a phase-in period.
- flash-to-bang time noun The period of time between when light is first observed and when the sound of the (nuclear or other) detonation is heard.
- flashback noun A query that operates against data from an earlier time, before it was changed.
- flashcard noun A solid-state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
- flasher noun A software developer who uses the Flash multimedia technology.
- flashover voltage noun The voltage at which an electric discharge occurs between two electrodes that are separated by an insulator.
- flask noun A container for holding a casting mold, especially for sand casting molds.
- flat noun A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall…
- flat design noun A user interface style that that is characterized by the lack of shadows, giving a flat, two-dimensional look