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 53 of 91: from “NH” to “nose”.
- NH noun prefix code for NASA research helicopter designations.
- nibble noun A unit of memory equal to half a byte, or chiefly four bits.
- nibbler noun A program for copying floppy disks at a low level (typically one bit at a time) to circumvent protection systems.
- nice verb To run a process with a specified (usually lower) priority.
- niceness noun A value determining how much processor time to concede to a running process. (See also nice (verb), renice.)
- Nicholl–Lee–Nicholl algorithm noun A fast algorithm for line clipping that reduces the chances of clipping a single line segment multiple times.
- niebloid noun An entity that can be called as a function but which is not visible to argument-dependent name lookup.
- niello noun Any of various black metal alloys, made of sulphur with copper, silver or lead, used to create decorative designs on other metals.
- nigger noun An impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated…
- night letter noun A telegram sent overnight at a reduced rate for delivery on the morning of the following day, typically with a minimum charge for 25 words…
- nightly noun A build of a software program with the latest changes, released every night.
- Nihilist cipher noun A symmetric cipher in which a Polybius square using a mixed alphabet is used to convert both the plain text and a keyword to a series of…
- nine noun A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
- ninety-ninety rule noun A humorous aphorism stating that the first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time, and the remaining 10% of the…
- ninja noun A programmer or tech worker, particularly one skilled in a particular programming language or environment; used especially in job adverts.
- nipple noun A pointing stick.
- nitrox noun An industrial process for case hardening (imparting greater surface hardness to) metal objects, involving nitrocarburizing (the diffusion…
- Nixie tube noun An obsolete electronic device for displaying numerals or other information by means of glow discharge.
- nMOS noun A MOSFET with an n-type channel (a semiconductor doped with an element creating a surplus of electron carriers).
- nMOSFET noun A type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that utilizes an n-type channel, conducting when a voltage voltage…
- NNUE noun A type of neural network able to run on a CPU, trained to evaluate a board game (usually chess or shogi) position.
- no-CD noun A software crack for a program that usually requires the presence of the original compact disc (to prove that it is a legally-acquired…
- no-code adj (of a development environment) Involving a graphical user interface rather than a text-based one.
- no-fly list noun A confidential list containing the names of people who are not permitted to board an aircraft, prepared by government authorities in…
- no-load adj Not supplying power; open-circuited.
- no-op noun An instruction or operation that has no effect; a null operation.
- noarch adj Used by the RPM Package Manager to mark software packages that contain only content, such as graphics, documentation or similar data that…
- nodal analysis noun A method of solving for the voltages of nodes in an electric circuit, in which a system of equations is written for the currents (using…
- node noun A computer or other device attached to a network.
- noise noun Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- noise word noun A word that may be included in source code for clarity but does not change the meaning.
- noiselet noun Any of a family of functions related to wavelets, analogous to the way that the Fourier basis is related to a time domain signal.
- noisy adj Accompanied by or introducing random fluctuations that obscure the real signal or data
- nominal adj According to plan or design.
- nominative type system noun A major type system where compatibility and equivalence of data types are determined by explicit declarations or the names of the types.
- non-binary noun Something which is not a binary; a computer file that is not readable text.
- non-essential prime implicant noun On a Karnaugh map: a prime implicant which does not cover any 1 which cannot covered by some other prime implicant.
- non-free software noun Software that cannot be freely copied, redistributed and modified, including source code.
- non-functional requirement noun A requirement of a project, such as accessibility or portability, that is not a specific, measurable aspect of performing a particular task.
- non-precision approach noun An instrument approach using a guidance system that provides only horizontal, and not vertical, guidance (such as VOR, NDB, or localizer…
- non-singular adj Injective.
- non-stack adj not skilled at, or relating to, multiple software layers such as operating system and user interface.
- non-terminal noun A non-terminal symbol in a formal grammar.
- non-terminal symbol noun A symbol in a formal grammar that cannot appear in sentences of the grammar but may eventually be resolved into a sequence of terminal…
- non-virtual interface pattern noun A software pattern that controls how methods in a base class are overridden using the non-virtual interface.
- non-W3C noun Any web technologies, formats, or coding practices that are not developed, endorsed, or ratified by the World Wide Web Consortium.
- nonadministrator noun A user who is not an administrator and therefore has limited privileges on the system.
- nonassignable adj That cannot be assigned to.
- nonblocking adj That does not block; allowing other tasks to proceed immediately rather than having to wait for completion.
- nonbrowser noun In Microsoft Windows, a computer that is not capable of maintaining and distributing a browse list.
- noncaching adj Not caching.
- noncapture adj Synonym of noncapturing
- noncapturing adj That does not store its matched text for later processing.
- nonce noun A value constructed so as to be unique to a particular message in a stream, in order to prevent replay attacks.
- noncharacter noun That which is not a character (unit of text).
- nonclustered index noun a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap…
- noncompliant adj Not complying with certain rules or regulations.
- nonconcurrency noun A property of systems where several processes execute sequentially, not at the same time.
- nondeterminism noun Dependence on factors other than initial state and input.
- nondeterministic polynomial time noun A class of decision problems for which a yes solution can be verified by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time, or…
- nondeterministic Turing machine noun A variant of a Turing machine whose governing rules may specify more than one possible action for any given combination of the state of the…
- nondimensionalization noun The partial or full removal of units from an equation involving physical quantities by a suitable substitution of variables, in order, for…
- nonet noun A byte of nine bits.
- nonexecuting adj Not executing; not running.
- nonfree adj With copyright restrictions that prevent unrestricted distribution or reuse.
- nonfunction noun Anything that is not a function.
- nonfunctional adj Not of the functional programming paradigm.
- nonhit noun Failure to match any record in an information retrieval system.
- nonimpact noun A printer that is not an impact printer.
- noninherited adj Not derived from a superclass through inheritance.
- nonliteral noun That which is not a literal.
- nonlocal noun An identifier that is not locally scoped.
- nonmanifold adj Not representing a continuous, closed surface (i.e. of a solid object)
- nonmemory adj Not of or pertaining to memory (computer storage).
- nonprimitive noun An object that is not a primitive.
- nonprogrammable noun A device that cannot be programmed.
- nonregister adj Not a register.
- nonrepudiation noun An assurance that the claimed sender or recipient is in fact the party who sent or received a given message.
- nonrev adj Pertaining to nonrevenue travel taken by airline employees.
- nonrigid noun An airship that maintains its shape only by internal gas pressure.
- nonsharp adj dulled or intentionally blunt.
- nonspace noun A text character that is not a space (or not whitespace).
- nontemporal adj Without temporal locality, describing data not expected to be accessed again in the near future
- nontrivial adj Needing significant computing power to solve; intractable.
- nonwindowed adj Not windowed: not presented in a graphical window.
- nop noun A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
- NOP sled noun A series of identical values in memory that instruct the CPU to take no action and proceed to the next instruction, used in shellcode etc.…
- Nordenfelt gun noun A kind of organ gun having a row of up to twelve barrels, and fired by pulling a lever back and forth, with ammunition fed by gravity…
- norm noun A sentence with non-descriptive meaning, such as a command, permission, or prohibition.
- normal adj Which is the kernel or cokernel of some morphism, respectively.
- normal form noun Any of various forms of a relational database providing criteria for determining a table's degree of vulnerability to logical…
- normal form game noun Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure…
- normal mode noun A mode of an oscillating system in which all parts of the system move sinusoidally with the same frequency and with a fixed phase relation.…
- normalization noun In relational database design, a process that breaks down data into record groups for efficient processing, by eliminating redundancy.
- normalize verb To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
- normally black adj for LCD to be opaque and thus black when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and transparent and thus white when voltage is applied.
- normally white adj for LCD to be transparent and thus white when voltage is not applied to a pixel electrode and opaque and thus black when voltage is applied.
- north pole noun The positive pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic north.
- northbridge noun A microchip connected directly to the CPU (unlike the southbridge) and thus responsible for tasks that require the highest performance.
- nose verb To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive