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 33 of 91: from “frequency assignment” to “gem”.
- frequency assignment noun An authorization, given by an administration, for a radio station to use a radio frequency or radio frequency channel under specified…
- frequency domain noun The analysis of mathematical functions or signals with respect to frequency, and possibly a phase, rather than time.
- frequency multiplier noun An electronic circuit that produces an output frequency that is an integral multiple of an input frequency.
- Fresnel number noun A dimensionless quantity (denoted F), such that for an electromagnetic wave passing through an aperture and hitting a screen, F=(a²)/(Lλ)…
- friction drum noun A type of gear.
- friend-to-friend adj Describing a restricted type of peer-to-peer network in which only persons who know each other participate.
- friendly name noun The everyday name of a hardware device, displayed to the user instead of the internal or technical designation.
- Frise aileron noun A kind of aileron that pivots on an offset hinge when pressure is applied to the control wheel or control stick, so as to project the…
- frizel noun A movable furrowed piece of steel struck by the flint, to throw sparks into the pan, in an early form of flintlock.
- frob verb To manipulate in some ill-defined way; to tweak or mess about with.
- front controller pattern noun A structural (and partitioning) design pattern that provides a centralized entry point for handling requests and is an extension to the…
- front door noun The normal portal page to a website.
- front end noun That part of a hardware or software system that is conceptually closest to the user; the user interface.
- front-end processor noun A small computer that interfaces with the host computer and handles operations such as network access or peripheral control.
- fruiting noun The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time).
- fsck noun A *nix file system check to detect damage to, or corruption of, files or filesystem structures.
- FSW noun Initialism of forward swept wing.
- FTP verb To transfer using File Transfer Protocol.
- fuckings noun Public abuse directed at rival demosceners, often included in the scrolltext of a demo; the negative equivalent of greets.
- fudge factor noun A quantity introduced to compensate for uncertainty.
- fulcrum noun The support about which a lever pivots.
- full adj Surjective as a map of morphisms
- full choke adj Having a tightly constrained choke.
- full disclosure noun The disclosure of all security flaws in a product.
- full 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…
- full house adj Having ammunition loaded to full allowable power, usually in reference to magnum handgun cartridges and shotgun shells.
- full metal jacket noun A bullet having a complete covering of copper over the lead core.
- full outer join noun A join yielding a set of records for two tables, where all rows of the "left" table are enlisted with all rows of the "right" table, even…
- full-bore adj Having a relatively large caliber.
- full-stop landing noun A landing in which the aircraft comes to a full stop (rather than performing a go-around or touch-and-go).
- fullwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of two alphanumeric characters in a monospace font, or two "normal" text columns.
- fully-automatic adj That loads itself and fires continuously.
- function noun A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- function code noun Any character used to specify a function of a piece of software or hardware (such as carriage return of a printer)
- function key noun Any of a set of keys on a personal computer or terminal keyboard used to activate a predefined or programmable function, especially a…
- functional noun An object encapsulating a function pointer (or equivalent).
- functional programming noun Programming in a style that, in lieu of assignment, uses procedure calls to bind variables to values, so that referential transparency is…
- functional requirement noun Any of the functions of a software system, described formally.
- functionalize verb To adapt into a form that uses functional programming.
- functioning time noun Of ordnance, the amount of time required for the fuze to detonate after impact or after a preset time.
- functoid noun A tool that transforms data from one form to another as it is routed from a source to a destination.
- functor noun A category homomorphism; a morphism from a source category to a target category which maps objects to objects and arrows to arrows (either…
- functor category noun A category whose objects are functors (from some fixed given domain category to some fixed given codomain category) and whose morphisms are…
- furball noun A large, disorganized battle involving many different aircraft (especially fighters) or warships.
- furniture noun The stock and forearm of a weapon.
- fuse noun An otherwise stable arbitrarily long repeating pattern that, when perturbed from one end, destructively carries that perturbation at a…
- fuse plug noun A component of an aircraft wheel held in place by a metal alloy with a low melting point, such that, if the wheel is severely overheated…
- fuse wire noun the thin wire used in fuses. In old-style fuses a new piece of wire has to be inserted when the fuse blows.
- fuselage noun The main body of an aerospace vehicle; the long central structure of an aircraft to which the wings (or rotors), tail, and engines are…
- fusion rocket noun a rocket engine that uses nuclear fusion reactions for propulsive force
- fusker noun A program or algorithm that downloads images or media from a web site that have not been publicly linked, based on guessing at similar URLs.
- futex noun A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.
- future noun An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
- fuzz noun The random data used in fuzz testing.
- fuzzy adj Employing or relating to fuzzy logic.
- fuzzy search noun A type of search algorithm that includes results similar to the query (but not necessarily exactly matching), such as words with similar…
- G-buffer noun A screen space representation of geometry and material information, generated by an intermediate rendering pass in deferred shading…
- Gabbard diagram noun A scatter plot on which the periapses and apoapses of the pieces of space debris from a single fragmentation event are plotted with respect…
- gabion noun A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining…
- Gabor atom noun A kind of function used in the analysis proposed by Dennis Gabor in 1946 in which a family of functions is built from translations and…
- Gabor transform noun A special case of the short-time Fourier transform, used to determine the sinusoidal frequency and phase content of local sections of a…
- Gabor wavelet noun A form of wavelet designed so as to minimize the product of its standard deviations in the time and frequency domain.
- gad noun An indeterminate measure of metal produced by a furnace, sometimes equivalent to a bloom weighing around 100 pounds.
- gadget noun A technique for converting a part of one problem to an equivalent part of another problem, used in constructing reductions.
- gaffle noun A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired.
- gain noun The factor by which a signal is multiplied.
- gaining twist noun In rifled firearms, a twist of the grooves, which increases regularly from the breech to the muzzle.
- gall verb To cause pitting on a surface being cut from the friction between the two surfaces exceeding the bond of the material at a point.
- gallery noun A browsable collection of images, font styles, etc.
- Galois connection noun A type of correspondence between partially ordered sets (posets), also applicable to preordered sets.
- galvanic action noun an electrochemical action that generates electrical current between two metals of dissimilar electrode potential.
- gamma noun Flight path angle; the angle by which an aircraft's flight path deviates from the horizontal plane.
- gamma correction noun A nonlinear operation used to encode and decode luminance or tristimulus values in video or still image systems.
- gap buffer noun A dynamic array that allows efficient insertion and deletion operations clustered near the same location.
- garage noun A shed for housing an airship or aeroplane or a launchable missile; a hangar.
- garbage noun Allocated memory which is no longer in use but has not yet been deallocated.
- garbage collect verb To reclaim resources which are no longer in use; to run a garbage collector.
- garbage collected adj Featuring garbage collection.
- garbage collection noun An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
- garbage collector noun An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use.
- garbage in, garbage out proverb If input data are not complete, accurate, and timely, then the resulting output is unreliable and useless. If the input is junk, then the…
- Garden of Eden noun A pattern that can only exist as an initial state and is not attainable from any other state.
- gas generator noun A mechanical device that uses a chemical reaction to produce a gas as an output.
- gashing noun The roughing operation for worm gears.
- gasket noun Any mechanical seal that serves to fill the space between two objects, generally to prevent leakage between the two objects while under…
- gasper noun An adjustable air outlet over a passenger seat in aircraft.
- gate noun A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
- gate array noun an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR…
- gate off verb To turn something off by controlling its gate.
- gate time noun The moment in time at which an aircraft pulls back from the gate, or passes a certain point on the track.
- gatekeeper noun A provider of core platform services with specific characteristics (Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council)
- gateway noun In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN…
- gatewaying noun The action or use of a gateway or access point; the connection or transmission using one or more gateways.
- gating noun The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
- gauge noun A unit of measurement which describes how many spheres of bore diameter of a shotgun can be had from one pound of lead; 12 gauge is roughly…
- Gaussian beam noun A beam of electromagnetic radiation with high monochromaticity whose amplitude envelope in the transverse plane is given by a Gaussian…
- gear verb To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio.
- gear-up landing noun A landing of an aircraft with the landing gear retracted due to the pilot(s) forgetting to extend the gear or to take some other action…
- geared turbofan noun A type of turbofan aircraft engine with a planetary gearbox between the low pressure compressor / turbine and the fan, enabling each to…
- gem noun A package containing programs or libraries for the Ruby programming language.