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 31 of 91: from “flat scissors” to “footprint”.
- flat scissors noun A form of the scissors defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker and slowing in…
- flat spin noun An especially dangerous type of spin (abnormal stalled flight mode) with a very high angle of attack (typically between 65° and 90°), such…
- flatbed noun A document scanner with a flat bed.
- flatpack noun A surface-mounted circuit board with leads attached in the plane of the board.
- flatten verb To reduce (a data structure) to one that has fewer dimensions, e.g. a 2×2 array into a list of four elements.
- fleeceware noun Malware whose functionality works as advertised but that manipulates users into subscribing instead of using free or much cheaper…
- Fletcher's checksum noun A kind of position-dependent checksum intended to provide error-detection properties approaching those of a cyclic redundancy check but…
- flexible noun Something that is flexible.
- flexure noun A part of a machine designed to bend in operation.
- flic noun A data file containing computer animations.
- flicker fixer noun A piece of computer hardware that deinterlaces an output video signal, resulting in a less flickery display on some systems.
- flight noun The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- flight control noun A system for controlling an aircraft's rotational or translational motion in one or more axes.
- flight controller noun An air traffic controller
- flight data recorder noun A device which records various performance parameters of an aircraft; designed to survive severe impact and fire to help in finding the…
- flight director noun A system of a narrow horizontal and vertical bar overlaid on an aircraft's attitude indicator, with the bars deflecting to provide guidance…
- flight engineer noun A member of the flight crew in certain (mainly older) aircraft who monitors and operates many to most aircraft systems.
- flight information region noun A specified region of airspace in which a flight information service and an alerting service are provided.
- flight instrument noun A device that measures and displays data concerning one or more aspects of the situation of an aircraft, such as its altitude, attitude…
- flight interruption manifest noun A substitute ticket issued by an airline due to a schedule change or other disruption to their service, allowing travel on another airline.
- flight level noun a pressure altitude measured in terms of hundreds of feet above sea level (ie. flight level 120 (FL120) is 12,000 ft. ASL)
- flight line noun The precise movement of a civil photogrammetric aircraft along a predetermined course at a predetermined altitude during the actual…
- flight number noun A callsign assigned to a commercial flight for the purposes of reservation and ticketing, typically consisting of a 2 character airline…
- flight nurse noun The predecessor to flight attendants, who were registered nurses.
- flight time noun The total amount of time spent piloting aircraft, serving as the primary measure of a pilot's experience.
- flightmare noun An unpleasant flight or experience during air travel.
- flip noun The tendency of a gun's barrel to jerk about at the moment of firing.
- flip-flop noun A bistable; an electronic switching circuit that has either two stable states (switching between them in response to a trigger) or a stable…
- flip-flop operator noun An operator specifying a range of conditions, such that the related code executes only if the first condition is true, and only until the…
- flippy noun A flippy disk.
- flippy disk noun An 8-inch or 5.25-inch floppy diskette that has been modified to be double-sided, allowing data storage on both sides of the disk.
- flippy-floppy noun A two-sided floppy disk; a flippy disk.
- flit noun A flow control unit or flow control digit.
- float verb To remain airborne, without touching down, for an excessive length of time during landing, due to excessive airspeed during the landing…
- floating ground noun A reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.
- floating point adj Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.
- floating point operation noun Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
- floating-point number noun A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10…
- floating-point unit noun A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central…
- flood fill noun A means of filling a discrete area with colour, based on colouring every pixel that can be recursively reached from a starting point.
- flooder noun A device for controlling or maintaining the flow of liquid.
- floor plan noun A layout representation of where the major functional blocks of an integrated circuit will be physically placed.
- floorgrip noun A device used to steady firing and counter the effects of recoil, resulting in far more accurate fire when shooting in full auto mode. It…
- flop noun Synonym of flop.
- floppy noun A floppy disk.
- floppy disk noun A removable disk used for storing digital data, measuring between 2 and 8 inches diagonally and storing between 80 KB and 240 MB.
- flops noun One flop per second.
- floptical adj Using a combination of magnetic and optical technology.
- floptical disk noun A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).
- flotilla noun A spaceship made of one or more central mutually stabilizing overweight spaceships flanked by lightweight, middleweight, or heavyweight…
- flow verb To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
- flow control noun The management of the data transmission rate between two nodes to prevent a fast sender from outrunning a slow receiver.
- flower box noun A comment in source code that spans several lines, serving to introduce the source code that follows, and bordered by asterisks.
- flox noun A mixture of liquid oxygen with some added fluorine, used as a high-energy oxidizer.
- fluent adj Being or relating to a fluent interface.
- fluent interface noun An object-oriented application programming interface whose design relies extensively on chaining methods together, with the aim of…
- fluid flywheel noun A type of coupling for transmitting power from the engine of a vehicle to the transmission, using a torque converter.
- flush noun The process of clearing the contents of a buffer or cache.
- flushness noun The state of being flush: smoothly aligned, not sticking out.
- flute noun A semicylindrical vertical groove, as in a pillar, in plaited cloth, or in a rifle barrel to cut down the weight.
- flutter verb To undergo divergent oscillations (potentially to the point of causing structural failure) due to a positive feedback loop between elastic…
- fly in noun An informal gathering of private pilots and their aircraft at a prearranged airfield.
- fly-by-wire noun A system that replaces the conventional manual flight controls of an aircraft with an electronic interface, especially on airliners.
- flyaround noun The animated passage of the camera around a model, to show it from different angles.
- flyboy noun An aircraft pilot, especially of a military combat aircraft.
- flyby noun A three-dimensional animated sequence in which the camera moves past an object or scenery.
- flyer noun A stray shot away from the group on a target.
- flying noun An act of flight.
- flying brick noun An aircraft which is too heavy and lacks sufficient power to be maneuvered easily.
- flying circus noun A German fighter wing in World War I.
- flying mouse noun An input device like a mouse that can be lifted from a surface and moved in three dimensions.
- flyout noun A popup menu that branches off some other visual element.
- flyweight noun A weight that moves outward depending on centrifugal force.
- flywheel noun A rotating mass used to maintain the speed of a machine within certain limits while the machine receives or releases energy at a varying…
- fnord noun A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
- focal depth noun The field of view of a camera that is in sharp focus.
- focal length noun A measure of how strongly an optical system converges or diverges light, the inverse of optical power. In the simple case of a single…
- focal plane noun Any plane perpendicular to the axis of a lens or mirror.
- focal point noun A focus; a point at which rays of light or other radiation converge.
- focalization noun The act or practice of putting into focus.
- focus noun A point at which reflected or refracted rays of light converge.
- focusable adj Able to receive the input focus.
- fodder noun Tracing paper.
- fog noun Distance fog.
- foil noun Clipping of aerofoil/airfoil.
- foistware noun Software that is installed without the user's knowledge or consent, often bundled with another product.
- fold noun The division between the part of a web page visible in a web browser window without scrolling; usually the fold.
- fold down verb To downmix.
- folder noun A virtual container in a computer's file system, in which files and other folders may be stored. The files and subfolders in a folder are…
- folding noun Code folding: a source code display technique that can hide the contents of methods, classes, etc. for easier navigation.
- folio noun A protective case with a flap that folds to cover the screen of a mobile device.
- fond noun A group of records having shared provenance.
- font noun A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer.
- font name noun Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see font, name: the name of a font (typeface).
- foo noun A metasyntactic variable used to represent an unspecified entity. If part of a series of such entities, it is often the first in the…
- foobar noun A metasyntactic variable name, a place holder for words; compare foo, bar.
- footer noun A line of information printed at the bottom of a page to identify the contents or number pages. (Compare foot in printing.)
- footgun noun Any feature likely to lead to the programmer or user shooting themselves in the foot.
- footing noun The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot; foundation.
- footprint noun The amount of hard drive space required for a program.