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 36 of 91: from “hacking” to “headroom”.
- hacking noun Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system.
- hacking run noun A hacking session extended long outside normal working times, especially one longer than 12 hours; sometimes an all-nighter.
- Hackintosh noun A computer other than a Macintosh that has been configured to run the Macintosh operating system (OS X or macOS).
- hackish adj Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
- hacky adj Using, or characterised by, hacks: poorly designed workarounds.
- Hadamard transform noun A generalized Fourier transform that performs an orthogonal, symmetric, involutive, linear operation on 2ᵐ real numbers (or complex…
- hair noun A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger.
- hairiness noun A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.
- hakapik noun A hunting implement, a long pole with a pick and hammer on the end, used by sealers to bludgeon seals and drag their carcasses to the…
- hal noun A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
- halant noun A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication…
- half duplex adj Synonym of semiduplex.
- half-jacket noun A short bullet jacket which leaves some of the bullet in contact with the bore.
- half-silvered mirror noun A mirror that consists of an incomplete reflective coating, so that half of the incident light is reflected and the other half is…
- halfcock noun The position when the cock of a gun is at the first notch.
- halfwidth adj Of a text character, occupying the space of half of a fullwidth character, or one "normal" text column.
- halting problem noun The problem of deciding in finite time whether a given program will finish running in finite time, when given a certain finite input.
- hamburger noun Ellipsis of hamburger button.
- hamfist noun (music)
- hammer verb To make high demands on (a system or service).
- hammer break noun An interrupter in which contact is broken by the movement of an automatically vibrating hammer between a contact piece and an…
- hammerhead turn noun A turnaround maneuver in aerobatics.
- hammerless adj Without a visible hammer; said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
- Hamming code noun Any of a family of linear error-correcting codes that generalize the Hamming(7,4)-code invented by Richard Hamming in 1950.
- Hamming distance noun Given two strings of equal length, the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols differ; it therefore indicates the minimum…
- hand noun The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- hand off noun The transfer of the radar identification of an aircraft from one controller to another when the aircraft enters the receiving controller's…
- hand-code verb To develop (software, web pages, etc.) by writing source code or markup directly, without the use of tools allowing higher-level…
- hand-held noun A personal digital assistant or video game console that is small enough to be held in the hands.
- handbrake noun A brake in a vehicle, set by hand, and usually locking on until released by hand, enabling its use when parked.
- handle noun A reference to an object or structure that can be stored in a variable.
- handler noun A subroutine that handles a particular situation such as an event or exception.
- handshake noun An exchange of signals between two devices when communications begin in order to ensure synchronization.
- handshaking noun A step in a protocol in which information is exchanged between computing processor devices; often as part of the initiation process for…
- handwheel noun Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake, or to allow fine adjustment, as of a set screw.
- hang verb To stop responding to manual input devices such as the keyboard and mouse.
- hang fire noun The situation when a gun does not immediately fire when the trigger is pulled, but may fire shortly after.
- hangar flying noun The enthusiastic and educational practice of pilots gathering (often in a hangar) to discuss, swap, and analyze flying stories…
- hangar queen noun A grounded aircraft which is kept so that its parts can be used in other aircraft.
- Hann function noun A discrete window function, w(n)=1/2;(1- cos ((2πn)/(N-1))), typically used to select a subset of a series of samples in order to perform a…
- happy landings noun Successful arrivals on land (by air or water), without any untoward incidents.
- haptic adj Of or relating to haptics (“the study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch”).
- haptic interface noun A user interface that allows a user to receive tactile feedback through the movement of a limb or the head.
- haptics noun The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
- hard code verb To build absolute and unchangeable values into a program such that they can only be changed by modifying the source code.
- hard deck noun In air combat training, the minimum allowed altitude below which the aircraft is considered destroyed by ground impact.
- hard disk noun One of a series of parallel magnetic recording disks in a drive unit, used for the recording and retrieval of digital information; used…
- hard drive noun An electromechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid, rapidly…
- hard error noun A type of error which persists even after power-cycling the equipment; associated with permanent physical damage to the equipment's…
- hard landing noun An excessively-forceful touchdown, potentially causing damage to the aircraft.
- hard launch noun The launch of a guided missile in such a way that the missile's rocket engine is ignited while still inside the launch assembly or tube.
- hard real-time adj Being or relating to a system in which no latency is tolerated, one that has absolute deadlines, and if those allotted time spans are…
- hard reset noun The reinitialization of the core hardware components of a computer system, ending any software processes and restarting the operating…
- hard return noun The type of newline that represents the semantic concept of a paragraph break (as opposed to the type that represents merely a line break…
- hard sectoring noun The use of a physical mark or hole to reference sector locations within a magnetic or optical recording medium.
- hard start noun An explosion in a rocket engine during startup, usually due to the presence of too much propellant prior to ignition.
- hard-land verb To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it does not survive the landing mostly or entirely…
- hard-wire verb To connect components by means of permanent electrical wires.
- harden verb To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
- hardened adj Having extra defences against attack; highly fortified.
- hardhead noun Residual ore that failed to melt during a smelting process.
- hardline noun A physical wire or cable connection; landline.
- hardness noun A measure of how hard a material is.
- hardover noun The condition where a control surface or actuator has moved to its extreme limit.
- hardsub verb To transcribe or overlay hardsubs (onto a video).
- hardware noun The part of a computer that is fixed and cannot be altered without replacement or physical modification; motherboard, expansion cards, etc.
- hardware acceleration noun Usage of dedicated hardware to perform a task, rather than relying on equivalent software, as it will be more performant.
- hardware description language noun Any language from a class of computer, modeling, or specification languages for formal description and design of analogue or digital logic…
- hardware node noun A physical device that is connected to a network and is able to send, receive, or forward information.
- hardwired adj Designed to perform a specific task.
- harness noun A software framework.
- harrier carrier noun A small light fast aircraft carrier specialized in operating VTOL aircraft, used for controlling sea lanes, convoy escort, and…
- hart noun In the RISC-V instruction set architecture, a hardware thread.
- Harvard architecture noun A computer architecture in which program instructions and data are stored on separate memories and accessed via separate buses.
- harvester noun A program or algorithm that gathers data from a source.
- has-a noun The relationship between a class and any member of that class in object-oriented computer programming.
- hash verb To transform according to a hash function.
- hash buster noun A program or algorithm that randomly adds characters to data in order to change its hash sum, typically to get around spam filters.
- hash function noun An algorithm that generates a numeric, or fixed-size character output from a variable-sized piece of text or other data; used in database…
- hash noise noun A harsh, pulsating, or buzzy interference signal, often caused by ground loops, electromagnetic interference, or failing components.
- hash table noun An associative array implemented as a vector, the indexes into which are the result of applying a hash function to the key.
- hash tree noun A tree (data structure) in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the hash of the labels of its children.
- hashing noun The computation of a hash value.
- hashlike adj Resembling or characteristic of the output from a hash function.
- hashrate noun The number of proof of work hashes that a mining computer can make in a given period of time, usually a second.
- hassle verb To engage in a mock dogfight.
- hat noun The caret symbol ^.
- hatching noun A method of shading areas of a drawing or diagram with fine parallel lines.
- hawk noun An uncooperative or purely selfish participant in an exchange or game, especially when untrusting, acquisitive or treacherous. Refers…
- hax noun Hacks, hacking.
- haystack noun The text string within which another string is searched for. (see: needle in a haystack)
- hazard noun A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle…
- haze noun The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
- head noun The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is…
- head crash noun A collision of the head of a hard drive with the platter, resulting in permanent damage to the hard drive.
- head gasket noun The gasket which seals a cylinder head to an engine block in several types of engine, including steam engines and internal combustion…
- header noun The first part of a file or record that describes its contents.
- header file noun A file, usually in the form of source code, that is automatically included in another source file by the compiler.
- headless adj Running without a graphical user interface; running without any attached output device (e.g., monitor) or input device (e.g., keyboard…
- headroom noun The ability of a system to reproduce loud sounds free of distortion; dynamic headroom.