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 41 of 91: from “interfix” to “jeep carrier”.
- interfix verb To attach or anchor (two or more parts) together.
- interframe noun A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- interlace noun A technique of improving the picture quality of a video signal primarily on CRT devices without consuming extra bandwidth.
- interleave verb To allocate (things such as successive segments of memory) to different tasks.
- interlingual machine translation noun A classic method where the source language is converted into an abstract, language-independent representation called interlingua.
- intermediate switch noun A light switch with two pairs of two terminals, which can be switched between straight-through or swapped wiring. Typically used as part of…
- intern verb To internalize.
- internalize verb To store (a string or other structure) in a shared pool, such that subsequent items with the same value can share the same instance.
- internationalization noun The act or process of making a product suitable for international markets, typically by making text messages easily translatable and…
- internet verb To connect (a computer, an electronic device, etc.) into a computer network (in particular, the Internet).
- Internet address noun Any address that is used to identify a place or resource on the Internet, such as a URL, an IP address, or a domain name.
- internetted adj Connected into a computer network.
- internetting noun The act of entwining or linking things together so as to form a network; interconnecting, networking.
- internode noun Whatever lies between two nodes.
- interoperable adj (of a system or device) Able to communicate, and exchange data with another system or device.
- interphase noun An indistinct region in the interface between two substances in composite materials.
- interplane adj Between the planes (wings) of a biplane or multiplane.
- interpolate verb During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to fetch data from a different source and process…
- interpolation noun The process of interpolating: including and processing externally-fetched data in a document or program.
- interposer noun An electrical interface between one connection or socket and another, used to spread a connection to a wider pitch or to reroute it.
- interpret verb To analyse or execute (a program) by reading the instructions as they are encountered, rather than compiling in advance.
- interpreter noun A machine that reads the pattern of holes on a punch card and prints its meaning along the top of the card.
- interrogate verb To query (something); to request information from (something).
- interrupt noun An event that causes a computer or other device to temporarily cease what it was doing and attend to a condition.
- intersection noun The pullback of a corner of monics.
- interstage noun The structure, generally containing mechanical components and instruments but no engines or fuel tanks, connecting the top of a stage of a…
- interthread adj Between threads.
- intertwingle verb Of documents, information, etc.: to interconnect or interrelate in a complex way.
- intertype adj Between data types.
- intraframe noun A video frame that does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents a fixed image. Usually subject to spatial…
- intranetwork noun An intranet.
- intraposition noun The act of putting something in something else; insertion.
- intrinsic noun A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
- intro noun A small demo produced to promote one's demogroup or for a competition.
- introspect verb To examine by means of type introspection.
- introspectability noun The quality of supporting type introspection.
- introspective sort noun A sorting algorithm that begins with quicksort and switches to heapsort when the recursion depth exceeds a level based on (the logarithm…
- intrusive adj Designating a type of collection in which each item keeps track of what collection it is in, rather than the more conventional approach of…
- invariant noun Ellipsis of class invariant.
- invariant section noun A property that does not change through a program's execution.
- invasion stripes noun A series of alternating black and white stripes painted on the fuselages and wings of Allied aircraft, for the purpose of increased…
- inverse adj Whose every element has an inverse (morphism which is both a left inverse and a right inverse).
- inverse limit noun a limit
- inverse video noun A display technique whereby background and foreground colours are interchanged, typically used for highlighting.
- inversion of control noun Abstract principle describing an aspect of some software architecture designs in which the flow of control of a system is inverted in…
- invert noun The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point.
- inverter noun A power inverter.
- invertor noun A device that converts direct current into alternating current.
- invest verb To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
- invocation noun The act of invoking, such as a function call.
- invoke verb To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
- invoker noun That which causes a program or subroutine to execute.
- ion engine noun a type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force
- IP noun Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).
- iris noun A constricted opening in the path inside a waveguide, used to form a resonator.
- iron noun Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
- iron ring noun The symbol of a Canadian engineer. A faceted stainless steel or iron ring worn on the little finger of the dominant hand, signifying a…
- irradiate verb To treat (food) with ionizing radiation to destroy pathogens.
- is-a noun The relationship between two entities in which one entity inherits from the other.
- iso noun Clipping of isomorphism.
- isochromatic adj Having the same colour or wavelength.
- isochronal adj Time-dependent.
- isochronous adj Of or pertaining to the use of clocks derived from the same clock reference.
- isogeny noun An epimorphism of group schemes that is surjective and has a finite kernel.
- isolation noun A database property that determines when and how changes made in one transaction are visible to other concurrent transactions.
- isomer bomb noun a type of theoretical radiological nuclear weapon that relies on an induced rapid change in the state of nuclear isomers to generate an…
- isometric projection noun An axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angle between any two of them is 120…
- isomorphic adj Able to run either client-side or server-side.
- isomorphism noun a one-to-one correspondence between all the elements of two sets, e.g. the instances of two classes, or the records in two datasets.
- isosynchronous adj of a communications system in which the source and target are each synchronized but each transmission contains a start bit and a stop bit.
- ISP noun Initialism of interface segregation principle, one of the five SOLID principles of programming.
- it's not a bug, it's a feature phrase What one user may consider a software bug, other users may consider to be a useful feature or an intentional consequence of the system's…
- item set noun A set of production rules which have an identical sequence of symbols between the right arrow (→) and the dot (•).
- iterable noun An object that can be iterated over.
- iterate verb To perform or repeat an action on each item in a set.
- iteratee noun In functional programming, a composable abstraction for incrementally processing sequentially-presented chunks of data in a purely…
- iteration noun The use of repetition in a computer program, especially in the form of a loop.
- iterative deepening search noun A type of depth-first search in which each row of the tree is searched incrementally, simulating a breadth-first search with less memory…
- iterative programming noun A programming approach in which a process is executed by repeating a block of instructions until a stopping condition is met, typically…
- iterator noun A method capable of performing the same action on every item in a collection.
- iterator pattern noun A behavioural design pattern that uses an iterator to traverse a container and access the container's elements, thus decoupling algorithms…
- Iznikware noun A kind of pottery from the town of İznik in western Anatolia, produced from the last quarter of the 15th century until the end of the 17th…
- jack noun A switch for a jack plug, a jackknife switch; (more generally) a socket used to connect a device to a circuit, network etc.
- jack in verb To insert an electronic coupling into a receptacle; to connect to something, whether involving a physical medium or not.
- jack nut noun A type of nut with a sheet metal body that mushrooms outward, on the far side of the hole through the substrate, when the screw is screwed…
- jacketed hollow point noun A lead bullet with a metal jacket that surrounds the whole side, and a hollowed out or dented in front tip.
- jacketed soft point noun A type of lead bullet with a partial metal jacket, where the tip leaves the core exposed without jacketing.
- jagged adj Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
- jaggies noun Jagged artifacts in raster graphics, such as those caused by resizing a bitmap image without preserving its aspect ratio.
- jail noun A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
- jailbreak noun A modification to a closed platform's technical restrictions that enables installation or execution of software (or OS modification) the…
- jank noun Perceptible pause in the smooth rendering of a software application's user interface due to slow operations or poor interface design.
- janky adj Unresponsive (of a software application’s user interface), sluggish.
- Janus particle noun A spherical microscopic particle which has hemispheres with sharply differing properties, such as one hydrophilic hemisphere and one…
- JAPH noun A program written in Perl that outputs the text Just another Perl hacker, usually programmed in an obfuscated manner so that the output is…
- jasperware noun A form of pottery that has a stoneware body which is either white or colored, which is noted for its matte finish. It is a popular…
- javalike adj Resembling the Java programming language or some aspect of it.
- JavaScripting noun Programming in the JavaScript programming language.
- JBOD noun Acronym of Just a Bunch of Disks, a collection of hard disks that are not configured according to RAID.
- jeep carrier noun A general purpose aircraft carrier, used in a variety of ways (hence 'general purpose', "GP" or jeep), such as aircraft transport ship…