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 50 of 91: from “misfire” to “Morse code”.
- misfire verb To fail to discharge properly.
- misrecognize verb To recognize in error
- misrelay noun The modification or dropping of routing packets, causing a disruption of communication between nodes in a network.
- misrun noun A failed test of oil or gas drilling equipment.
- miss noun The situation where an item is not found in a cache and therefore needs to be explicitly loaded.
- missed approach noun A go-around from an instrument approach performed, for whatever reason, at a time when the aircraft is at or above the applicable decision…
- missed approach point noun The point during descent at which a pilot must initiate a go-around maneuver if the runway is not in clear sight.
- missing man formation noun An aerial salute to commemorate a deceased person, consisting of a formation of flying aircraft with a space where one plane should be…
- Mississippi rifle noun The Model 1841 percussion rifle, a muzzleloading rifle used in the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War.
- miswrite noun A failed write operation.
- Mitchell-Netravali filter noun Any of a group of bicubic reconstruction filters often used for antialiasing or for scaling raster graphics.
- mitre line noun A line drawn marking an angle of 45 degrees, especially in the use of aligning the depth lines between the top and side views of a third…
- mix-in noun Alternative form of mixin.
- mixed alphabet noun The mapping from plaintext to ciphertext characters in a substitution cipher, when it is not merely a shift or reversal but an arbitrary…
- mixed initiative noun A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.
- mixed raster content noun An image that has been stored as multiple layers under different types of compression, typically a bitonal text and line-art layer, a…
- mixer noun A nonlinear electrical circuit that creates new frequencies from two signals applied to it.
- mixfix adj Being or relating to a kind of operator that can combine any of the infix, prefix, postfix, and closed notations.
- mixnet noun A server or group of servers facilitating private communication between individuals by randomly scrambling the order that messages are…
- MMO noun Maximum operating Mach number; the Mach number which an aircraft should not exceed in the course of routine operation.
- MMR noun Initialism of meet-me room.
- mnemonic noun The human-readable, textual form of an assembly language instruction, not including operands.
- mob programming noun A software development approach where the whole team works on a single project at a single computer at the same time.
- mobbing noun Mob programming.
- mobile noun Ellipsis of mobile phone.
- mobile station noun All the user equipment (mobile phone, SIM card etc) and software needed for communication with a GSM network.
- mobile virtual network operator noun A provider of mobile telecommunications who does not operate any physical network infrastructure, but relies on contracting with physical…
- mobileness noun Suitability for mobile devices.
- mobo noun A motherboard.
- mock noun A mockup or prototype; particularly, ellipsis of mock object, as used in unit testing.
- mock out verb To replace (source code or other software elements) with a stub that exhibits the desired behaviour, typically for use in automated testing.
- mockable adj Of which a mockup or prototype may be made.
- mod noun A module (file containing a tracker music sequence).
- modal noun A modal (etymology 1, adjective sense 7) window, one that cannot be closed until a decision is made.
- mode noun A state related to signals or vibrations.
- model noun In software applications using the model-view-controller design pattern, the part or parts of the application that manage the data.
- model-based design noun A mathematical and visual method of addressing problems associated with designing complex control, signal processing and communication…
- model-based testing noun An application of model-based design for designing and optionally also executing artifacts to perform software testing.
- model-driven architecture noun A software design approach for the development of software systems that provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications…
- model-first adj Of a software development approach, where a conceptual data model is created first, and then the database schema and corresponding code are…
- model-view-controller noun A type of computer user interface that separates the representation of information from the user's interaction.
- model-view-presenter noun A derivative of the model-view-controller (MVC) architectural pattern, where the presenter assumes the functionality of the "middle-man".
- modeler noun a computer program that simulates a physical system
- modeless adj Not modal; not having separate modes in which user input has different effects.
- modeling language noun An artificial language used to express information, knowledge, or systems in a structured way defined by a consistent set of rules.
- modem noun A device that encodes digital computer signals into analog telephone signals and vice versa, allowing computers to communicate over a phone…
- modified Harvard architecture noun A variation of the Harvard computer architecture, allowing the contents of the instruction memory to be accessed as data.
- modifier noun A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
- modifier key noun A key (on a computer keyboard) that may be pressed simultaneously with certain other keys to activate predefined functions.
- modulate verb To vary the amplitude, frequency or phase of a carrier wave in proportion to the amplitude etc of a source wave (such as speech or music).
- modulation noun Chiefly preceded by a descriptive word: modification of an electromagnetic wave or other oscillating carrier wave to apply a signal to it…
- module noun A section of a program; a subroutine or group of subroutines.
- module pattern noun A structural design pattern to implement the concept of software modules (modular programming) in a programming language that lacks support…
- modulo noun The operation or function that returns the remainder of one number divided by another.
- modulus noun An operator placed between two numbers, to get the remainder of the division of those numbers.
- mojibake noun Corrupt characters or letters, especially resulting from being displayed or transferred through an inappropriate character set or encoding.
- Molex to SATA, lose all your data phrase Using a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power a storage device may lead to loss of data, as a poorly designed and unreliable connector may cause…
- moment noun Ellipsis of moment of force.
- moment of inertia noun Second moment of area; a measure of a rigid body's resistance to bending.
- momental adj Of or relating to moment or momentum.
- momentless adj Without a moment, or turning force.
- monad noun A monoid object in the category of endofunctors of a fixed category.
- monic adj Of a morphism: that it is a monomorphism.
- moniker noun An object (structured item of data) used to associate the name of an object with its location.
- monitor noun A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
- monkey patch noun A patch which alters the behaviour of a program by forcibly overriding aspects of the original code at runtime.
- mono noun Clipping of monomorphism.
- monoalphabetic adj Of a substitution cipher, using the same fixed mappings from plaintext to cipher letters across the entire text.
- monocase adj Supporting or consisting of only one case of letters; either all uppercase or all lowercase; (also), case insensitive, treating upper and…
- monocentric noun A monocentric lens.
- monogon noun A single-faceted reflector.
- monograph noun A nonserial (nonperiodical) publication: a one-time publication.
- monoidal category noun A category 𝒞 with a bifunctor ⊗:𝒞×𝒞→𝒞 which may be called tensor product, an associativity isomorphism α_(A,B,C):(A⊗B)⊗C≃A⊗(B⊗C), an object…
- monoliteral adj That uses a single letter as a cipher
- monolithic adj Consisting of a single piece of homogeneous material as opposed to a composite material or an assembly of multiple parts.
- monolithic programming noun A software design approach in which an application is built and deployed as a single, unified unit, with its components tightly integrated…
- monome noun An expression with a single term, such as a product of numeric variables (with no addition) or a conjunction of possibly negated Boolean…
- monomorphic adj Taking only a single data type.
- monomorphisation noun In a compiler, the process of converting a polymorphic function to a monomorphic function, by the creation of a specialised function for…
- monomorphism noun A morphism n such that for any other morphisms f and g, if n∘f=n∘g then f = g.
- monophase adj Having a single phase of alternating current.
- monoplane noun An airplane that has a single pair of wings.
- monorotor adj Having one rotor; having one main rotor.
- monoscope noun A device that produced a single video image
- monostrand noun An tendon that is composed of a single wire or bar.
- monotype noun In the Hindley–Milner type system, a single specific data type.
- moob verb To rapidly adjust the evaluation of a position towards zero, indicating a likely draw.
- Moody chart noun A kind of graph that relates various properties of a circular pipe, used to predict pressure drop or flow rate.
- moof intj Used to indicate the lowing or barking sound of a dogcow or similar chimeric creature.
- moonfall noun Arrival on the Moon, or a moon, by spacecraft.
- moonwalk noun An exploration of the Moon's surface on foot by an astronaut.
- Moore neighborhood noun A neighborhood on a 2D square lattice consisting of a cell and its eight orthogonal and diagonal neighbors.
- moose test noun A test of the stability of a vehicle, which determines the maximum speed it can attain and still be able to steer clear of an obstacle…
- morning star noun A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes attached rigidly to a staff, in contrast to a flail.
- morph verb To change shape, from one form to another, through computer animation.
- morpher noun A program or algorithm that carries out morphing animations.
- morphism noun (formally) An arrow in a category; (less formally) an abstraction that generalises a map from one mathematical object to another and is…
- morphological dictionary noun A resource that documents the relationship between surface forms and their corresponding lexical forms.
- morris noun A type of pike.
- Morse code noun A character code represented by dots and dashes (or short and long pulses), originally used to send messages by telegraph, later by flashes…