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 38 of 91: from “homegroup” to “hypermedia”.
- homegroup noun A collection of home computers on a network, similar to a workgroup.
- homelab noun A server set up in one's home for the purpose of testing various configurations of hardware, operating systems, etc.
- homeset noun The equipment (satellite) for receiving signals from a direct broadcast satellite service.
- homochronous adj Of two signals, such that their corresponding significant instants are displaced by a constant interval of time.
- homodromous adj Moving in the same direction (said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the…
- homoglyph noun A character identical or nearly identical in appearance to another, but which differs in the meaning it represents; thus, in character…
- homograph noun A text character or string that looks identical to another when rendered.
- homoiconicity noun A property of some programming languages, in which the primary representation of programs is also a data structure in a primitive type of…
- homomorphic encryption noun A form of encryption that permits users to perform computations on its encrypted data without first decrypting it.
- honeycomb noun The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.
- honeytoken noun A kind of honeypot that is not a computer system, such as a fake e-mail address used to track whether a mailing list has been stolen.
- honeyword noun An incorrect password published as part of a honeypot, so that any user attempting to log in with the password may be assumed to be an…
- hook noun Part of a system's operation that can be intercepted to change or augment its behaviour.
- hook flash noun A signal that briefly disconnects the local loop circuit by means of the hookswitch or a dedicated button, used to control functions on the…
- hook maneuver noun An anti-G technique to increase G-tolerance and reduce G-LOC incidences, which involves powerful inhalation, and rapid exhalation…
- hookable adj Able to be extended or modified by means of a software hook.
- Hooke's gearing noun A spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.
- hop noun The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- hopscotch hashing noun A scheme for resolving hash collisions, having an insertion algorithm that involves a series of hops.
- horizon noun The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.
- horizontal categorification noun The process by which an algebraic structure is first categorified, realising it as a one-object category with certain properties, and then…
- hork verb To foul up; to be occupied with difficulty, tangle, or unpleasantness; to be broken.
- hose verb To break or destroy (a system), especially by wiping files or other content.
- host verb To run software made available to a remote user or process.
- hosting noun Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf.
- hostname noun The unique name by which any device attached to a computer network is known.
- hot adj Frequently executed.
- hot and high adj Operating in hot climates and at high altitude.
- hot chassis noun A metal chassis, used as a base for electrical equipment, that is live because it lacks a transformer to isolate the equipment from the…
- hot corner noun A corner of the screen configured to perform an action when the pointer is moved there.
- hot folder noun A file system directory which is monitored by software so that any new files arriving in it can be processed.
- hot microphone noun A microphone that is activated (but not powered) by the sound of the user's voice, allowing it to pick up speech without having to be…
- hot patch noun A patch (software fix) which is applied to a system while it is running, without the need to reboot the system to complete the patching…
- hot refuel verb To refuel an aircraft while one of its engines is running.
- hot spot noun Synonym of heiligenschein (“an optical phenomenon which creates a bright spot around the shadow of the viewer's head, when the surface on…
- hot swap verb To remove or replace a component while the computer is still running.
- hot tear noun A fracture in a metal casting that occurs during solidification as a result of hindered contraction.
- hot top noun In casting, a live open riser with a hot ceramic liner, designed to counteract the formation of harmful hollows when casting objects of…
- hot work verb To plastically deform metal (or other material) at temperatures above the recrystallization temperature but below the melting point of the…
- hotbar noun A panel of buttons to which users can assign frequently used commands.
- hotbox noun An overheated shaft bearing.
- hotel load noun The electrical load caused by all systems on a vehicle (especially a marine vessel or a truck) other than propulsion.
- hotkey noun A keyboard shortcut.
- hotword noun Synonym of wake word.
- hourglass verb To display the cursor as an hourglass indicating that the computer is busy or processing.
- hourglassed adj Physically deformed into an hourglass shape.
- hourly rating noun A measure of the maximum output, usually expressed in horsepower, that can be obtained from the motors of an electric locomotive for a…
- housekeep verb To perform the general tasks of housekeeping.
- hover verb Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without…
- hoverable adj Capable of interaction by hovering.
- howlround noun A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its connected speakers.
- HSYNC noun The horizontal synchronization signal incorporated in a video transmission, such as for a TV broadcast.
- HTTP verb noun A HTTP method; any of a predefined set of words (such as GET, OPTIONS or POST) that are part of an HTTP request and indicate the desired…
- hu noun prefix for utility helicopter designations
- hub noun A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch.
- hub plank noun A horizontal plank attached along the truss of a highway bridge, at the height of a wagon wheel hub, to prevent the wheels from hitting the…
- hub-and-spoke adj Being or relating to a topology, whether for the physical distribution of goods or for telecommunications, that has a central "hub"…
- hubble noun A space telescope or spy satellite with a design like the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Huey, Dewey and Louie noun Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.
- Huffman coding noun An entropy-encoding algorithm used for lossless data compression, involving a variable-length code table derived from the estimated…
- hugepage noun A memory page (a fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory) that is significantly larger than a standard page.
- hull noun The body or frame of a vessel, such as a ship or plane.
- human-readable adj That can be read by humans (as well as computers), such as a file format based on plain text.
- humaniform noun A robot resembling a human.
- hung adj Of a computer or similar device, receiving power but not functioning as desired; working very slowly or not at all. The condition is often…
- Hungarian adj Of or relating to Hungarian notation.
- Hungarian notation noun A naming convention in which the name of a variable indicates its data type and intended use by including abbreviations as prefixes.
- hunk noun A record of differences between almost contiguous portions of two files (or other sources of information). Differences that are widely…
- hunt verb To be in a state of instability of movement or forced oscillation, as a governor which has a large movement of the balls for small change…
- hunt and peck noun The hunt-and-peck typing technique.
- hunting noun Fluctuation or oscillation that does not stabilize.
- hunting cog noun A tooth in the larger of a pair gear wheels, which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the…
- hurricane hunter noun An aircraft used to fly through hurricanes, or into the eye of hurricanes, to collect meteorological data, and sea surface data.
- hurt noun A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions.
- hybrid noun A computer that is part analog computer and part digital computer.
- hybrid sleep noun A variant of sleep mode in which current data is retained both in memory (allowing fast resumption, as if from hibernation) and on disk (to…
- hydrate verb To load data from a database record into an object's variables
- hydration noun Client-side rendering of pre-rendered static server data, e.g. to make dynamic web pages.
- hydraulic radius noun For a porous material, the ratio of porosity (ratio of volume of interstitial space filled with fluid to volume of material) to specific…
- hydro noun Abbreviation of hydroaeroplane.
- hydroaeroplane noun A floatplane, an airplane specialized for operating on water, having pontoon floats instead of skids or wheels.
- hydrocode noun Any of several computer programs that model the behaviour of fluid flow systems by breaking down the system into a three-dimensional matrix…
- hydroflight noun A method of tethered flight using an umbilicus to provide power and reaction mass via a hydrojet supplied from a surface pump on a body of…
- hydroforming noun A cost-effective way of shaping malleable metals into lightweight, stiff pieces by means of high-pressure hydraulic fluid
- hydrolox noun A type of binary rocket fuel composed of liquid oxygen (lox) oxidizer and liquid hydrogen combustible.
- hydrostatic lock noun A condition that arises when a device which compresses gases seizes up because of the infiltration of liquid, which prevents further…
- hygiene noun The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
- hygienic adj Whose expansion is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.
- hyper- prefix linked non-sequentially
- hypercall noun A syscall made by a guest operating system to the underlying hypervisor, rather than executing instructions that the hypervisor simulates.
- hypercomputation noun Any of several forms of computation that are theoretically (or practically) impossible with current technology.
- hyperconnectivity noun The state of a network in which the number of nodes is far in excess of the number of users.
- hypercube noun A data cube with more than three dimensions.
- hyperfair adj Excessively fair, more than fair: typically describing an offer involving more than fifty percent of the stake.
- hypergame noun A game that is played by a player based on their own knowledge of game states and their perception of other players' knowledge of game…
- hypergolic adj Igniting spontaneously upon contact with an oxidizer.
- hyperinnovation noun A state of multidimensional interconnections (as in hyperlink or hypertext).
- hyperlens noun A nanostructured metamaterial that produces magnified images of objects smaller than the wavelength of the light used
- hyperloop noun A control structure in which a loop repeats until either a stopping condition is met or all possible values of the looping index have been…
- hypermedia noun The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the…