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 37 of 91: from “headshell” to “home screen”.
- headshell noun A component of a Sun server, used to connect a console between two Sun machines. It is made up of a DB-25 male connector with a normal…
- headspace verb To occupy a headspace.
- headstamp noun The identification marking on the base (bottom) of a cartridge casing.
- headtracking noun A technique that tracks the movements of the user's head and adjusts the view of a three-dimensional model accordingly, allowing them to…
- headwall noun A retaining wall at the outlet of a drain, culvert or tunnel.
- health informatics noun Informatics as applied to health and health care: the application of information science and information technology to health (that is, to…
- heap noun A data structure consisting of trees in which each node is greater than all its children.
- heapsort noun A sorting algorithm based on the heap data structure.
- heart wheel noun A form of cam shaped like a heart, used to convert uniform rotary motion into uniform reciprocating motion.
- heartbeat noun A periodic signal generated by hardware or software to indicate normal operation or to synchronize other parts of a system.
- heat shield noun A shield designed of a substance that absorbs excessive heat from an outside source by either dissipating, reflecting or simply absorbing…
- heat-seeking adj Of a missile or rocket, able to detect and follow the heat emitted by an aircraft engine or rocket.
- heating element noun A device used for the conversion of electric energy into heat, consisting of a heating resistor and accessories.
- heatshield noun A system designed to protect an object entering an atmosphere at high speed from the resulting very high temperature due to atmospheric drag
- heavy noun A relatively large multi-engined aircraft.
- heavy machinery noun Industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
- hectogon noun An individual processor in some parallel processing systems.
- heel noun The back, upper part of the stock.
- heelplate noun Synonym of buttplate.
- heightmap noun A two-dimensional raster image used to store surface elevations that can later be applied to a three-dimensional object.
- helium descrambler noun An electronic device that lowers the pitch of speech, to compensate for the high-pitched speech of someone breathing in a helium atmosphere…
- help noun Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
- helping hand noun A jig used to help solder wires and electronics, consisting of a weighted base, a pair of adjustable arms ending in crocodile clips (the…
- helpline noun A telephone service (or (by extension) one using email, SMS, or the Web) which offers help to those who call, as either a public emergency…
- here document noun A block of text included in the source code of a computer program in such a way that it is treated as a single string literal with line…
- hermaphroditic adj Of, related to, or having both male and female connectability for fastening.
- hero noun The eye-catching top portion of a web page, sometimes including a hero image; the portion above the fold.
- heterogeneous adj Of a network comprising different types of computers, potentially with vastly differing memory sizes, processing power and even basic…
- heuristic adj That provides a useful, but not optimal, solution to a problem. Such algorithms are typically employed either because the only known…
- heuristics noun Experience-based methods used to reduce the need for calculations pertaining to equipment size, performance, or operating conditions.
- hex edit verb To manipulate the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file using a hex editor, which displays the data in hexadecimal…
- hex editor noun A text editor that allows for manipulation of the fundamental binary data that constitutes a computer file, displayed in hexadecimal format.
- hexadecimal noun A number system with base sixteen, using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E and F, most used in computing as a…
- hexatrigesimal noun A number system with base thirty-six, using the digits 0–9 and A–Z.
- hexavigesimal noun A number system with base twenty-six, using the digits 0–9 and A–P (or A-Z without numerals).
- hibernate verb To enter a standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
- hibernation noun A hypothetical state of minimum power consumption, inactivity and metabolic depression in humans during long space flights.
- hidden city noun A connecting city between the origin and destination of a passenger flight, where a passenger can save money on the airfare by disembarking…
- hidden code noun Code that is embedded in software or another system and is disguised to make it difficult to detect.
- hierarchical database noun A database whose records are linked in a tree-like structure, each child record having a single primary parent.
- high bit noun The most significant bit in the binary representation of a number, sometimes used to record the sign of the number.
- high color noun graphics with two bytes of storage per pixel, allowing for up to 65536 different colors
- high shelf noun A filter that gradually increases or decreases frequencies above a certain point in the frequency spectrum.
- high speed steel noun A kind of tool steel, invented in the early 20th century, which retains its hardness and temper at high temperatures (at which previous…
- high surrogate noun A code point in the range U+D800 through U+DBFF (the High Surrogates and High Private Use Surrogates blocks), used in UTF-16 to encode the…
- high time adj Having been in use for a (relatively) long time or a large number of operating cycles; nearing retirement or replacement age.
- high yo-yo noun A dogfighting maneuver used by a rapidly-closing attacker to avoid an overshoot during a turn, involving pulling up into a climb to…
- high-entropy alloy noun a type of metallic alloy containing not one dominant element, but multiple major elements, with a single crystalline structure and existing…
- high-level adj Consisting of relatively natural language-like commands and mathematical notations which, after compilation or interpretation, become a set…
- high-level language noun A programming language requiring a compiler to translate it into a form that a particular machine understands, focusing on user-friendly…
- high-level synthesis noun A design method that automatically transforms an algorithmic or behavioral description of a digital system, written in a high-level…
- high-lift device noun A mechanical device or control surface which, when deployed or activated, increases the lift generated by an aircraft, allowing it to fly…
- high-octane adj Of fuel, having a high octane number, good antiknock characteristics; used in high-performance vehicles.
- high-powered adj Of an instrument, capable of great magnification.
- higher intermediate point noun A place on an itinerary to which there is a higher fare than the destination or next fare break point.
- highpass adj Describing a filter, circuit, or system that rejects or attenuates a frequencies below a specified value while passing those above.
- highway noun Synonym of bus (“common connection for two or more circuits or components”).
- hijacker noun Hijackware.
- hijackware noun Malicious software that commandeers other software, especially a web browser, so as to affect its behaviour.
- hillshade noun A graphical representation of a surface as if illuminated from one side
- Hindenbug noun A catastrophic bug that destroys data, and may potentially shut down a system or cause a major malfunction.
- Hindley's screw noun A screw cut on a solid whose sides are arcs of the periphery of a wheel into whose teeth the screw is intended to work.
- Hindley-Milner type system noun A classical type system for the lambda calculus with parametric polymorphism, notable for its completeness and its ability to infer the…
- hint noun Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at…
- history noun A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- hit noun A match found by searching a computer system or search engine
- hit home verb To strike its target with damaging effect.
- hit point noun In ray tracing, the point in a scene at which a ray strikes an object.
- hitbox noun An invisible shape bounding all or part of a model (in a video game, etc.) used in collision detection to determine whether another object…
- hitscan noun A calculation to find the point at which a given line intersects an object in the game world, commonly used to determine whether a bullet…
- HIV noun Initialism of header isolation valve.
- hive noun A section of the registry.
- Hoare logic noun A formal system of rules for reasoning about the correctness of computer programs, based on Hoare triples, which describe the state of the…
- Hoare triple noun A formal description of how the execution of a piece of code changes the state of the computation in Hoare logic, consisting of a command…
- hog verb To take a rough cut, quickly removing material; to hog out.
- hogel noun A small portion of a computer-generated light-field hologram, representing the direction and intensity of light rays from many perspectives.
- hogging adj Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.
- Hohmann transfer noun An elliptical orbit used to transfer a spacecraft between two circular orbits of different altitudes in the same plane, with the periapsis…
- Hohmann transfer orbit noun An elliptical orbit used to transfer between two circular orbits of different radii in the same plane.
- hoist verb To extract (code) from a loop construct as part of optimization.
- hoisting noun The behaviour of JavaScript syntax which allows variables to be used before they are declared.
- hold noun A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
- hold hostage verb To sabotage (a computer) with intent to blackmail the owner.
- hold time noun The minimum amount of time for which the data input should be held steady after the clock event for reliable sampling.
- holddown noun A clamping device that holds another structural element in place.
- holder-up noun A bucker; one who bucks rivets, typically holding a heavy bucking bar against the bucktail of a rivet (heated if necessary till it is…
- holding pattern noun A path taken by an aircraft waiting to land.
- holding stack noun A vertical sequence of aircraft flying the same holding pattern at different altitudes, stacked above an airport or a navigational waypoint…
- holdover noun The distance (at target) by which a rifle scope is aimed higher than the intended point of impact in order to compensate for bullet drop…
- hole noun A security vulnerability in software which can be taken advantage of by an exploit.
- hole punch verb To create a NAT, WAN-to-LAN port forwarding on the router.
- hollow point noun A bullet with a small hole drilled or molded in the tip (nose), designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
- holophony noun The reproduction of three-dimensional sound information in a manner analogous to the way holography reproduces light information; wave…
- holy war noun A long-running and acrimonious debate or flame war over personal preferences in technical matters, such as the choice between little-endian…
- holy-water sprinkle noun A 16th-century weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, used mainly in England; a morning star.
- hom class noun A (possibly empty) class composed of the morphisms from A to B, where A and B are objects in some category, denoted operatorname Hom(A,B).
- hom-set noun The set or collection of all morphisms from A to B for some given ordered pair (A, B) of objects from some given category.
- home noun Clipping of home directory.
- home run noun A connection from a central distribution point or circuit breaker to a destination.
- home screen noun Alternative form of homescreen