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 48 of 91: from “maximize” to “metaphor”.
- maximize verb To expand (a window) to fill the main display area.
- maximum permitted mileage noun In fare construction, the permitted total of ticket point mileages allowed between two fare break points.
- maximum seek time noun The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- maximum throughput noun The highest rate at which data can be transmitted or processed in a system over a given period of time.
- MB noun Abbreviation of motherboard.
- MBps noun megabytes per second
- MC noun Initialism of movie clip.
- MCA noun Initialism of minimum crossing altitude.
- McDowell line noun The altitude of periapsis at which atmospheric drag will prevent an object from successfully orbiting.
- McIntire joint noun An electrical connection spliced together by means of a sleeve (double tube of copper for this purpose).
- McKinley noun A processor of Intel’s first Itanium 2 brand, code-named McKinley.
- Mcrit noun The minimum Mach number at which the airflow over some part of an aircraft reaches the speed of sound.
- Mealy machine noun A finite-state machine whose output values are determined by both its current state and its current inputs.
- mean sea level noun The mean altitude of the ocean surface, averaged over all high and low tides at a particular location.
- meatball noun An optical landing system.
- mechanical noun A mechanical engineer.
- mechanical advantage noun The ratio of the output force produced by a machine (especially a simple machine) to the applied input force.
- mechanical splice noun A junction of two or more optical fibres aligned and held in place by a small self-contained assembly.
- mechanokinetic adj Of or pertaining to mechanokinetics
- media noun Files and data comprising material viewable by humans, but usually not plain text; audiovisual material.
- media player noun A software application for the playback of audio or video files.
- mediary adj Storing data that is written by one process so that it can be read by another process.
- medical examiner noun A physician who examines pilots to ensure that they are medically fit to fly.
- medical informatics noun Informatics as applied to medicine: the application of information science and information technology to medical care and any other health…
- medium noun The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
- medium scale integration noun An integration type for digital circuits that contain hundreds of transistors providing dozens of logic gates per chip.
- meet-me room noun A place within a co-location centre where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without…
- mega- prefix Multiplying the unit to which it is attached by 2²⁰ (= 1,048,576, the binary number closest to a million). Computing symbol: Mi.
- megabit noun One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bits or 1,000 kilobits. Equals 125,000 bytes (125 kilobytes).
- megabyte noun One million (10⁶, or 1,000,000) bytes or 1,000 kilobytes.
- megacharacter noun One million characters of text.
- megaflop noun megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)
- megahack noun A massive hack of a computer system.
- megahurt noun megahertz.
- megamenu noun A dropdown menu that expands into a relatively large and complex interface rather than a simple vertical list of commands.
- mem noun A memory access as part of processing.
- member noun A file stored within an archive file.
- member function noun A function that belongs to a class and can be called on instances of the object defined by that class.
- member variable noun A variable that is associated with each instance of a class and can be accessed from all its methods.
- memo noun A record of partial results that can be reused later without recomputation.
- memoization noun A technique in which partial results are recorded (forming a memo) and then can be re-used later without having to recompute them.
- memoize verb To store (the result of a computation) so that it can be subsequently retrieved without repeating the computation.
- memoried adj Having a memory (of a given kind).
- memory noun The part of a computer that stores variable executable code or data (RAM) or unalterable executable code or default data (ROM).
- memory ballooning noun A technique used to eliminate the need to overcommit host memory used by virtual machines by letting each VM effectively "give back" unused…
- memory bank noun A hardware-dependent logical unit of storage in an electronic.
- memory barrier noun An instruction that enforces an ordering constraint on memory operations issued before and after it.
- memory card noun A solid state digital memory storage format, commonly found on computers, digital cameras and cellphones.
- memory cell noun A fundamental block of computer memory.
- memory chip noun A RAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM or EEPROM microchip that can be plugged into a personal computer to provide temporary or permanent memory.
- memory core noun A (semi-)permanent computer memory storage device that may be extracted, and may or may not be separate from the computer core.
- memory effect noun The situation in which nickel-cadmium rechargeable batteries gradually lose their maximum energy capacity if they are repeatedly recharged…
- memory hole noun A fragment of physical address space which does not map to main memory.
- memory leak noun Any of several faults in the memory allocation logic of a computer or program whereby parts of memory become hidden or unusable.
- memory page noun A fixed-length contiguous block of virtual memory, representing the smallest division of a page table.
- memory safety noun Protection from software bugs and security vulnerabilities resulting from improper memory management, such as buffer overflows and dangling…
- memory stick noun One of a series of memory devices manufactured by the Sony Corporation ranging in size from a USB drive down to a flash card.
- meniscus noun A lens which is convex on one side and concave on the other, being crescent-shaped in cross-section.
- menqach noun A specialized, heavy, dual-headed hammer or chisel used by Moroccan artisans (Maâlems) in Fez to hand-cut and bevel the edges of zellige…
- menu noun A list from which the user may select an operation to be performed, often done with a keyboard, mouse, or controller under a graphical user…
- menuing noun The use of menus in a graphical user interface.
- mercury arc rectifier noun A rectifier which converts alternating current to direct current, using a cathode tube with a pool of liquid mercury. Now superseded by…
- mergesort noun A divide and conquer sorting algorithm that operates by dividing the items to be sorted into many small lists and gradually merging them…
- meridiem noun The property of a timestamp of being either a.m. or p.m.
- mesa noun a structure with components rising above the insulating substrate that surrounds it
- mesh noun A polygon mesh.
- mesh analysis noun A method of solving for the currents in an electric circuit, in which a system of equations is written for mesh currents (using Kirchhoff's…
- mesh current noun In mesh analysis: a construct representing a component of current associated with a particular mesh (loop); the real current on a wire is…
- mesh network noun A communications network with at least two pathways to each node, forming a net-like organization. When each node is connected to every…
- meshable adj Capable of being converted to a polygon mesh.
- mesosonic adj Describing motion through a two-phase medium, usually electrons and heavy ions, at a speed between the speeds of sound in the two…
- message board noun A system by which users may send, read and reply to public messages; an electronic bulletin board or forum.
- message broker noun An intermediary program that translates a message from the formal messaging protocol of the sender to the formal messaging protocol of the…
- message queue noun A queue onto which messages may be placed for delivery between components as part of interprocess communication.
- message-driven bean noun A type of Enterprise JavaBean (EJB) designed to process messages asynchronously, acting as a listener for Java Message Service (JMS) or JCA…
- message-oriented middleware noun Hardware or software infrastructure supporting sending and receiving of messages between distributed systems
- messaging pattern noun A network-oriented architectural pattern that describes how two different parts of a message pass system connect and communicate with each…
- messenger noun An instant messenger program.
- met noun Initialism of Modular Equipment Transporter, a two-wheeled handcart used on the Apollo 14 manned mission to the Moon.
- metaball noun An n-dimensional object with an organic appearance, characterised by the ability to meld into others when in close proximity.
- metacharacter noun A character used to signify something other than its literal form, such as the asterisk when used as a wildcard.
- metacircularity noun The property of an interpreter that is written in the same programming language that it interprets, and that exploits homoiconicity to…
- metacommand noun A command that is not part of the language being written but serves as a directive to the interpreter or compiler.
- metacompilation noun A computation which involves metasystem transitions from a computing machine to a metamachine which controls, analyzes and imitates the…
- metacube noun A kind of computer architecture derived from the hypercube and intended for use with large-scale parallel systems.
- metadata noun Structured information about a file (date created, creator, software used to create, last modified, file format, file fingerprint, etc).
- metadynamics noun An algorithmic method of simulating rare complex systems and for calculating the free energy associated with them
- metafunction noun A function which calls all the other functions of a certain program; the only function that can be called independently.
- metal noun The actual airline operating a flight, rather than any of the codeshare operators.
- metal jacket noun The outer casing or covering of certain types of ammunition, specifically the casing that surrounds the lead or other core material.
- metalanguage noun Any similar language used to define a programming language
- metalearning noun A form of machine learning where automatic learning algorithms are applied to metadata about machine learning experiments, so that the…
- metallist noun A person who works with metals.
- metallography noun The study of the structure of metals and their alloys, by any of a variety of techniques
- metallostatic adj Measured within the body of liquid metal
- metamaterial noun Any material engineered to have a property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials; especially
- metamethod noun A method belonging to a metatable.
- metamodel noun A model of the modelling process itself.
- metapackage noun A software package that contains no software itself, but serves to install a particular set of other packages.
- metaphor noun The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks.