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 62 of 91: from “prod” to “pseudotype”.
- prod noun Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
- product owner noun In the Scrum framework, the manager of the product backlog, responsible for maximizing the value of the product.
- production noun A rewrite rule specifying a symbol substitution that can be recursively performed to generate new symbol sequences. (More information on…
- productization noun The act of modifying something, such as a concept or a tool internal to an organization, to make it suitable as a commercial product.
- profile verb To give a definite form by chiselling, milling, etc.
- profilee noun A program undergoing profiling.
- profiler noun A software program that measures the performance of different portions of another program in order to locate bottlenecks.
- profinite group noun A topological group that is isomorphic to the inverse limit of some inverse system of discrete finite groups; equivalently, a topological…
- prog noun A program.
- proggie noun A program, especially (historical) an externally produced hacking tool used to attack other users on early America Online services.
- program noun A computer program.
- program counter noun A register that stores the address of the current (or next) instruction to be carried out by the processor.
- program slicer noun A software analysis tool that displays data links and related characteristics to enable a programmer to track the effects of proposed…
- program trading noun High-volume and high-speed buying and selling of investment securities, such as stocks and bonds, which is initiated and executed by…
- programmable read-only memory noun A type of read-only memory which can be written to once (write once, read many memory/WORM), and thereafter becomes fixed in value.
- programmatically adv Through program code, rather than through a user interface.
- programmer noun One who writes computer programs.
- programming noun The act of writing a computer program.
- programming language noun A code of reserved words and symbols used in computer programs, which give instructions to the computer on how to accomplish certain…
- programming style noun The conventions and patterns used in writing source code, resulting in a consistent and readable codebase.
- progress bar noun A bar that indicates the progression of a task by gradually filling its empty space with solid colour.
- progressive scan noun A method of displaying or transmitting an image or film in which all horizontal lines of a frame are drawn in sequence.
- progressive web application noun A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and…
- projection noun A morphism from a categorical product to one of its (two) components.
- projective adj Such that, given an epimorphism e:E→X and morphism f:P→X, f factors through e; that is, there exists a morphism ̃f:P→E with e∘̃f=f.
- projective limit noun Synonym of limit (“the cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely”)
- prologue noun A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.
- promiscuous adj The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
- promise noun A placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.
- promote verb To treat (a value) as a more capable data type or as having higher priority.
- prompt noun A sequence of characters that is displayed to indicate that a computer is ready to receive input.
- prompt engineering noun The technique of formulating instructions (prompts) for a generative AI, in order that it produce the expected output.
- proof verb To test-fire with a load considerably more powerful than the firearm in question's rated maximum chamber pressure, in order to establish…
- proof charge noun A charge of powder and ball, greater than the service charge, fired in an arm, as a gun or cannon, to test its strength.
- proof of concept noun A proof of technology or pilot project.
- proof of work noun A form of cryptographic proof in which a prover proves to verifiers that a certain amount of a specific computational effort has been…
- prop wash noun The disturbed mass of air or water pushed aft (or forward when in reverse) by the propeller of an aircraft or propeller-driven watercraft.
- propagate verb To take effect on all relevant devices in a network.
- propagation constant noun The change underdone by the amplitude and phase of an electromagnetic wave as it travels in a certain direction.
- propagation time noun In a digital circuit, the amount of time required for a signal or wave to travel from one point of a transmission medium to another.
- property noun An editable or read-only parameter associated with an application, component or class; especially (object-oriented programming) one that…
- propjet noun A turboprop engine.
- propulsor noun A propellor enclosed in a short cylinder, that can typically be swivelled to change the angle of thrust.
- proration noun In budgeting, the proportional distribution or allocation of parameters, such as noise power and transmission losses, among a number of…
- protect verb To book a passenger on a later flight if there is a chance they will not be able to board their earlier reserved flight.
- protected adj Having the protected access modifier, indicating that a program element is accessible to subclasses but not to the program in general.
- protected mode noun An operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, in which software can use features such as virtual memory, paging, and safe multitasking.
- protection noun An instance of a security token associated with a resource (such as a file).
- protestware noun Software subverted to serve the ends of a political protest, for example by deleting files or displaying propaganda messages.
- Proteus effect noun A phenomenon in which the behavior of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.
- protoboard noun A board, having a matrix of small holes to which components may be attached without solder, used for the temporary construction and testing…
- protocol noun A set of formal rules describing how to transmit or exchange data, especially across a network.
- protocol stack noun Synonym of stack (“an implementation of a protocol suite (a set of protocols forming a layered architecture)”).
- prototype noun A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
- prototype pattern noun A creational design pattern that determines the type of objects to create by a prototypical instance, which is cloned to produce new…
- prototype-based language noun A programming language in which behaviour reuse (or inheritance) is performed via cloning existing objects that serve as prototypes.
- prototype-based programming noun A programming style, where inheritance is achieved by using existing objects by means of delegation that act as prototypes.
- prototype-based scripting language noun A programming language that uses prototypes to allow objects to inherit properties and methods from other objects.
- prototype-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a style of object-oriented programming that uses existing objects as prototypes to reuse behavior.
- prototype-oriented programming noun A programming paradigm that encapsulates states and operations inside "prototypes" to design applications and computer programs.
- provenance noun The copy history of a piece of data, or the intermediate pieces of data used to compute a final data element, as in a database record or…
- proverse adj Describing the tendency of a plane to roll in the same direction as yaw.
- provision verb To supply (a user) with an account, resources, etc. so that they can use a system; to install the necessary software on a bare-bones system…
- provisioner noun One who or that which provisions (sets up an account, resources, etc.).
- provisioning noun The installation of software on a system, especially when automated.
- proximity effect noun A condition when a power cable carrying electric current which is non-uniformly distributed due to the presence of other power cable or…
- proxy verb To function as a server for a client device, but pass on the requests to another server for service.
- proxy pattern noun A structural design pattern that is implemented as a class functioning as an interface for a network connection, a large object in memory…
- proxy server noun A hardware server that acts as an intermediary between a user and another server, usually on the Internet.
- prune verb To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure.
- pruning noun A method of enumeration that allows the cutting out of parts of a decision tree.
- prunus noun A type of traditional decoration on porcelain that depicts the leaves and branches of the Chinese plum, Prunus mume.
- PS3 noun PostScript level 3
- pseudo-English noun A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
- pseudo-localization noun The practice of using fake localization strings during development, intended to test the software's capability of handling multilingual…
- pseudo-polynomial time noun A time algorithm whose running time is a polynomial in the numeric value of the input, but not necessarily in the length of the input.
- pseudoalgorithm noun A description of a process that resembles, but is not in fact, an algorithm, as for example by being written in vague pseudocode.
- pseudoaligner noun A tool that rapidly assigns sequencing reads to transcripts (or genes) without performing base-by-base alignment.
- pseudochannel noun One division of an actual channel into multiple theoretical channels, one per opening, to represent flow through openings into sidestreams.
- pseudocode noun A description of a computer programming algorithm that uses the structural conventions of programming languages but omits detailed…
- pseudocolouring noun The assignment of arbitrary colours to the grey levels of a monochrome image; used especially in thermography
- pseudoconsciousness noun A state or condition that is not consciousness but seemingly or nearly approaches it or simulates it.
- pseudodevice noun An entry in a file system that acts like a physical device without having the corresponding hardware.
- pseudodirectory noun A virtual directory entry that does not represent a directory on the underlying file system on disk, instead being automatically generated…
- pseudoelement noun An object in code that behaves like an HTML element but is not a true element.
- pseudofile noun A file that does not represent a file on the underlying file system on disk, but instead is automatically generated to represent some other…
- pseudographical adj Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based.
- pseudohandle noun A special value that can be treated as a handle (e.g. to identify a process) but is not a true handle.
- pseudoinstruction noun A command that resembles, but is not in fact, a machine instruction, such as a special directive or a command that is mapped to a sequence…
- pseudolanguage noun A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.
- pseudolocalization noun The testing of software for internationalization compliance using modified versions of the original text (with the use of foreign script…
- pseudomonad noun A weak generalization of a monad on a Gray-category or 2-category (or more generally a weak 2-category) 𝒞 consists of a 2-functor (in…
- pseudonymization noun The replacement of all data (in a database etc) that identifies a person with an artificial identifier or pseudonym.
- pseudonymize verb To depersonalize or anonymize (data); a procedure by which the most identifying fields within a data record are replaced by one or more…
- pseudonymous adj Pertaining to pseudonymization.
- pseudonymously adv Pertaining to pseudonymization.
- pseudostate noun An entity that resembles, but is not in fact, a state in a state machine or similar.
- pseudostatement noun A construct resembling a statement that is not a true statement.
- pseudoterminal noun A pair of pseudodevices that can communicate with each other without the hardware that a true device would require.
- pseudotype noun Something resembling, or having certain characteristics of, a data type.