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 59 of 91: from “pitchable” to “polyrepo”.
- pitchable adj Able to be pitched.
- pitching noun A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
- pitchmeter noun A device, encompassing a clinometer, used for measuring the pitch of a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft.
- pitfall noun An antipattern.
- pitot tube noun A pressure measuring instrument used to measure fluid flow velocity, especially used to determine the airspeed of an aircraft.
- pitot-static adj Of a tube or component, that integrates both the pitot tube, (measuring total pressure) and a static port, (measuring ambient static…
- pitting resistance equivalent number noun A number, calculated using a given stainless steel alloy's chemical composition, which aims to predict its resistance to pitting corrosion.
- pivot noun An element of a set to be sorted that is chosen as a midpoint, so as to divide the other elements into two groups to be dealt with…
- pivot table noun A summary table used for automatic sorting, counting and averaging of the data in another table or spreadsheet.
- pixel art noun A style of digital art drawn at the pixel level, sometimes having the pixels enlarged for a retro appearance.
- pixel-perfect adj Having precise dimension ratios in all aspects on well-defined drawing glyphs.
- pixelization noun The result of enlarging a digital image further than the resolution of the monitor device, usually 72 dpi (dots per inch), causing the…
- pixmap noun A grid of pixels; a bitmap, especially one having more than one bit (binary digit) assigned to each pixel, allowing for multiple shades or…
- pizza box noun A wide, flat, square style of computer chassis, similar in shape to a pizza delivery box.
- pizza dish noun A Kᵤ-band satellite dish used by direct broadcast satellite systems, ranging from 18 to 31 inches in diameter.
- placeholder noun A non-editable caption initially displayed in a blank text box to indicate its function.
- plain adj Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).
- plain text noun Text or any data that is to be encrypted (as opposed to ciphertext).
- plançon à picot noun A type of infantry weapon consisting of a stout iron-shod baseball bat-like shaft with a steel spike attached on top.
- plane noun Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.
- planer noun A large machine tool in which the workpiece is traversed linearly (by means of a reciprocating bed) beneath a single-point cutting tool.…
- planning poker noun A consensus-based technique for estimating development time (or other goals) in which participants lay down numbered cards to indicate…
- plasma noun A visual effect in which cycles of changing colours are warped in various ways to give the illusion of liquid organic movement.
- plasmasonic adj equal to, or greater than, or capable of achieving, ten times the speed of sound.
- plasmonic adj Of or pertaining to plasmons, the quasiparticles resulting from the quantization of plasma oscillations.
- plate verb To specify which airline a ticket will be issued on behalf of.
- platform noun A particular operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software; a particular type of computer or…
- platform-independent adj Of computer software or computing methods and concepts: implemented such that they can operate on any of various computer platforms.
- platter noun One of possibly many disks on which data is stored in a mechanical hard drive.
- playblast noun A low-resolution crude render of computer-generated imagery used in CGI production as a check for character and prop positioning and…
- player noun An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
- Playfair noun Ellipsis of Playfair cipher.
- playground noun A sandbox for testing calls to an application programming interface.
- playlist noun A list of tracks or videos to be played in a particular sequence, as from an audio CD or a streaming service.
- plenum noun A type of network cabling which satisfies a given plenum rating for the purpose of fire safety.
- plex noun A designated portion of a disk, usually set up to mirror some of the contents.
- pling noun The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
- plink verb To take part in the sport of plinking.
- plinking noun Informal target shooting done at non-traditional targets such as tin cans, glass bottles and wood blocks.
- plotter noun An output device that draws graphs and other pictorial images on paper, sometimes using attached pens.
- plug noun A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one.
- plug and play adj Of or pertaining to plug and play; characterized by an ease of use or installation.
- plug in noun A module or device that interacts with another to add a specific feature or function.
- plugfest noun An event during which hardware devices are tested for interoperability with emerging standards by physically connecting them together.
- plumbing noun The set of Git commands, such as and , which control the low-level state of the repository, typically not intended to be used in ordinary…
- plunger noun The firing pin of a breechloader.
- plussed adj Containing a plus sign.
- pMOSFET noun A type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) that utilizes an p-type channel, conducting when a voltage voltage…
- PNP noun Ellipsis of PNP transistor.
- poacher's gun noun A small-bore shotgun hidden in a walking cane.
- pod slurping noun The illicit copying of data from an unattended personal computer by plugging in a portable storage device
- podule noun An expansion mechanism for ARM-based computer systems, generally a Eurocard-compatible printed circuit board that plugs into a backplane…
- pogo noun Ellipsis of pogo oscillation, a dangerous condition where fluctuations in the thrust and acceleration produced by a rocket engine generate…
- pogo oscillation noun A dangerous oscillation in the fuel or structure of a rocket along the long axis induced by a surge in thrust.
- pogo stick noun Synonym of tailstand.
- point verb To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- point blank adj The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting…
- point of contact noun A person who is associated with a defined Internet entity.
- point of interest noun A point on an engineering drawing that has been added to make the layout of the part easier. It is usually the intersection of the tangent…
- point of no return noun The point in an aircraft's flight when there is insufficient fuel to reverse direction and return to the place of origin.
- point release noun A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in…
- point-and-click adj With which the user interacts by pointing and clicking, using a mouse or similar device.
- point-and-drool adj Synonym of point-and-click (implying that such a user interface is preferred by unintelligent, technically incompetent people)
- point-free adj Employing or relating to tacit programming.
- point-to-point adj Being or relating to a method of manually constructing electronic circuits prior to automation and printed circuit boards, where components…
- pointcut noun In aspect-oriented programming, a set of join points specifying when advice should run during execution.
- pointel noun Any of the eight vertices of a voxel.
- pointer noun A variable that holds the address of a memory location where a value can be stored.
- pointerlike adj Like a pointer (variable holding a memory address).
- pointless adj Point-free; employing the tacit programming paradigm.
- pointy adj In the Raku programming language: being a block or subroutine that acts as a closure accepting a list of parameters (denoted by the pointed…
- poison verb To place false or malicious data into (a cache, etc.) as part of an exploit.
- poison message noun A message that causes processing to fail, and thus remains in the message queue and prevents processing of further messages.
- poison queue noun A special message queue into which poison messages are diverted, to prevent them from blocking the system.
- poke verb To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
- polarity noun A measure of the electrical potential at the ends of a circuit. ᵂᵖ
- polarization charge noun An electric charge that appears on the surface or within a dielectric material due to the polarization process induced by an external…
- pole verb To treat (copper) by blowing natural gas or other reducing agent through the molten oxide, burning off the oxygen.
- policer noun A software component that enforces a security policy.
- poll verb To (repeatedly) request the status of something (such as a computer or printer on a network).
- poller noun a task or process that periodically checks for a condition being satisfied, such as the availability of new data
- polling noun A technique that continually interrogates a peripheral or service to see if it has data to transfer.
- polony noun A cluster of polymers produced by clonal amplification of DNA.
- poly noun A polygon.
- Polybius square noun A character code represented by two sets of six lit torches, used to send messages character by character, in a two point visual fire…
- polyfill noun An algorithm to fill a polygon with a particular color.
- polyglot noun A file that can be interpreted validly as multiple formats.
- polygon of forces noun A polygonal figure the sides of which are vectors representing several forces acting simultaneously upon one point, so that the vector…
- polygon soup noun An arbitrary collection of polygons with no particular distinguishing traits, thus possibly difficult to decompose for rendering.
- polygonization noun The formation of subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked
- polygonize verb To form subgrains within the grains of a metal when worked.
- polyhedral adj Having multiple dihedral angles along the wingspan.
- polyhedron noun A polyscope, or multiplying glass.
- polymorphic adj Having or relating to the ability to take multiple data types for a single parameter.
- polymorphic iteration noun The use of an iterator class or interface to enable traversal over the members of any type of collection for which there is a corresponding…
- polynomial basis noun Specifically, a basis, of the form {1, α, ..., αⁿ⁻¹}, of a finite extension F_(qⁿ) of a Galois field F_q, where α is a primitive element of…
- polypaint noun A feature allowing the user to "paint" color directly onto the polygons of a three-dimensional model without first creating a texture map.
- polyphase adj Of, pertaining to, or involving multiple alternating currents that have the same frequency but differ in phase.
- polyphase circuit noun A group of alternating current circuits having two or more interrelated voltages, usually of equal amplitudes, phase differences, and…
- polyrepo noun A software project in which different components are located in separate code repositories which can be versioned individually (as opposed…