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 35 of 91: from “grammar” to “hackery”.
- grammar noun A formal system specifying the syntax of a language.
- grammar induction noun The process of constructing a model that captures the characteristics of observed objects by learning a formal grammar.
- grandfather noun The archived older version of a file that immediately preceded the father file.
- graph noun A morphism Γ_f from the domain of f to the product of the domain and codomain of f, such that the first projection applied to Γ_f equals…
- graphical adj Of, related to, or using graphics.
- graphical user interface noun A type of user interface which allows people to interact with a computer through a metaphor of direct manipulation of graphical images and…
- graphics noun The pictorial representation and manipulation of data; the process by which a computer displays data.
- graphics processing unit noun A specialized electronic circuit designed to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display device.
- graphics tablet noun An input device that enables a user to draw images by hand, as if with a pencil, and import them into a computer system.
- graphing calculator noun A hand-held (usually programmable) electronic calculator which is capable of solving equations, plotting graphs and performing other tasks…
- graticule noun Synonym of reticle (“a transparent plate marked with a crosshair, grid, or scale which is used in an optical instrument, etc., to aid in…
- graveyard orbit noun An orbit where spacecraft which have reached their end of life can be safely positioned to avoid colliding with other spacecraft or the…
- gravity bomb noun An unguided, freefall aerial bomb that follows a ballistic trajectory determined solely by gravity, without a guidance system.
- gravity drag noun The resistance felt by a vehicle ascending against the force of gravity; reduction in delta-v experienced as a result of the partial…
- gray hat noun A hybrid between a white hat and a black hat hacker, who hacks for no personal gain, and does not have malicious intentions, but does…
- gray out verb To make (a visual element) gray or lighter in colour to indicate that it is disabled or unavailable.
- graymap noun A grayscale bitmap.
- grease verb To perform a landing extraordinarily smoothly.
- greaser noun A very soft landing.
- greedy adj That tries to find the global optimum by finding the local optimum at each stage.
- greek verb To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize speed in displaying text that would be too small to read.
- greeking noun Nonsense text or graphics inserted into a document as a placeholder to create a dummy layout, or to demonstrate a type font; the practice…
- green adj Of or pertaining to a part formed from compacted metal powder which has not yet undergone sintering to improve its strength.
- green charge noun A mixture of ingredients used in gunpowder before it undergoes an intensive mixing in the incorporating mill.
- green cross noun A chemical warfare pulmonary agent used during World War I.
- green thread noun A thread of execution that is scheduled by a virtual machine, not natively by the underlying operating system.
- green-gray adj Of infrastructure: combining natural systems with traditional engineering.
- green-on-green adj Pertaining to the pairing of a new or green captain or pilot with a new or green first officer or co-pilot as the cockpit crew of a flight.
- greenbody noun A ceramic precursor, usually mesostructured with dopants, which has been formed but not yet milled or fired.
- greenfield adj Of a completely new development, without the need to integrate with legacy systems, etc.
- greenhouse cockpit noun A distinctive style of cockpit with numerous windows, rather than simply the front windscreen, as seen on such types as the Lancaster and…
- greenware noun Pottery that has been shaped but not yet fired, especially while it is drying prior to being fireable.
- gremlin noun A contemptible person.
- grep verb To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
- grey-box testing noun A combination of black-box testing and white-box testing, where knowledge about the internal data structures and algorithms is used to…
- greyline noun A transition line, coinciding with a twilight zone (terminator), where a change in the propagation of radio waves is observed.
- greyware noun Software that is not outright malicious but is generally undesirable or annoying, such as adware.
- grid noun A system or structure of distributed computers working mostly on a peer-to-peer basis, used mainly to solve single and complex scientific…
- grim trigger noun A strategy that always cooperates as long as the opponent does not defect, in which case thereafter the strategy always defects.
- grind verb To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- grinding machine noun A machine tool in which a rotating grinding wheel is moved against the workpiece (or vice versa) in order to cut the latter to a desired…
- grip noun A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved by dragging with a mouse or finger.
- gripe noun A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
- gripper noun A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- grog verb To grind and screen (clay) to a specific particle size.
- groinfield noun A series of groins (rigid structure built perpendicularly along a waterway) built alongside each other.
- gronk verb Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
- groom verb In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.
- grooming noun In agile software development, the reviewing and prioritization of items in the development backlog.
- Grothendieck topology noun A structure on a category which makes the category's objects act like the open sets of a topological space.
- Grothendieck universe noun A kind of universal set whose elements follow the rules of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, and for which, with respect to an arbitrary set, an…
- ground noun An electrical conductor connected to the earth, or a large conductor whose electrical potential is taken as zero (such as a steel chassis).
- ground effect noun Any aerodynamic effects occurring due to a vehicle's body or appendages moving in close proximity to the ground.
- ground loop noun A (usually unwanted) current that flows between two points that are meant to be at the same potential, but are not.
- ground out verb To provide proper grounding for a circuit.
- ground staff noun staff employed by an airline, or an airport, that work on the ground, as opposed to aircrews.
- ground station noun A terrestrial radio station designed for extraplanetary telecommunication with spacecraft, or reception of radio waves from astronomical…
- ground stop noun The halting of air traffic for a particular airport, with no arrivals allowed and all departures held on the ground.
- ground truthing noun In machine learning, the process of gathering objective (provable) data in order to test the system.
- ground-effect vehicle noun An aircraft that uses aerodynamic ground effect to attain level flight near the surface of water.
- grounded adj Not allowed to fly.
- grounding noun The interconnecting metal chassis or frame of a device, appliance, machine, or metal raceway via a designated conductor to earth at the…
- groundlaying noun The first process in decorating by means of enamelled colour.
- groundplot noun A method for determining an aircraft's position by multiplying its groundspeed by its time in flight and measuring off the resultant…
- group noun A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
- group box noun A rectangular control that can contain other controls, intended for grouping similar items visually.
- group functor noun A group object that is an object in a category of functors; a functor with certain properties that generalise the concept of group.
- group object noun Given a category C, any object X ∈ C on which morphisms are defined corresponding to the group theoretic concepts of a binary operation…
- group scheme noun A group object that is an object in a category of schemes; a scheme that has certain properties that generalise the concept of group.
- groupoid noun A set with a partial binary operation that is associative and has identities and inverses.
- grouser noun A protrusion on the surface of a wheel or continuous track segment, intended to increase traction in soil, snow, or other loose material.
- growl verb To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- grundy noun Granulated or shotted pig iron.
- gskew noun A form of branch predictor that implements multiple prediction mechanisms with different indexing functions.
- GST noun One of various compounds of germanium, antimony, and tellurium used as a phase change material, including GeSbTe.
- GTO noun Abbreviation of geostationary transfer orbit.
- guard noun A Boolean expression that must evaluate to true for a branch of program execution to continue.
- guard band noun An unused part of the radio spectrum between bands, for the purpose of preventing interference.
- guest noun A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- guiderail noun a track that guides a rocket from its launch point into the air
- guido noun A guidance officer.
- guiltware noun Software that attempts to convince the user to fulfil some obligation (such as registration or donation to a charity) by eliciting feelings…
- gulp noun An unspecified small number of bytes, often two.
- gun noun A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
- Gunn effect noun The generation of high-frequency (usually microwave) oscillations within a semiconductor whenever an applied DC voltage exceeds its…
- gunner noun A riveter; someone who operates a rivet gun.
- Gunning transceiver logic noun A kind of logic signaling used to drive electronic backplane buses, having a voltage swing between 0.4 and 1.2 volts—much lower than that…
- gunship noun An armed helicopter tasked to attack the enemy.
- gusset noun A kind of bracket, or angular part, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the…
- gust lock noun A device used to lock the control surfaces of a parked aircraft in order to reduce the probability of flight-control damage resulting from…
- gweep verb To work on a minicomputer late at night.
- H-field noun An auxiliary vector field that describes the driving magnetic influence produced by free currents, independent of the material's response.
- hack verb To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to…
- hack up verb To quickly and simply create (a piece of code).
- hackable adj That can be hacked or broken into; insecure, vulnerable.
- hackathon noun An event where programmers and others meet for collaborative software development, usually over several days.
- hackee noun The victim of a hacking attack; one whose computer system has been compromised.
- hacker noun One who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer.
- hackerish adj Resembling or characteristic of a hacker (malicious user who breaks into computer systems).
- hackery noun The use of hacks (ingenious but inelegant techniques).