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 64 of 91: from “quiet” to “Real Programmer”.
- quiet adj Requiring little or no interaction.
- quill noun A quill drive, having a hollow shaft with another movable shaft inside it.
- quine noun A program that produces its own source code as output.
- quintuple-click noun The action of pushing the button on a mouse five times in quick succession.
- quit verb To close (an application).
- quiver noun A container for arrows, crossbow bolts or darts, such as those fired from a bow, crossbow or blowgun.
- quoin noun A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level.
- quorum noun The minimum number of votes that a distributed transaction has to obtain in order to be allowed to perform an operation in a distributed…
- QWERTY noun A standard layout of keys on a keyboard for typing, in which the leftmost keys of the top lettered row are Q-W-E-R-T-Y.
- qword noun A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
- R-pentomino noun The methuselah based on this polyomino that, in Conway's Game of Life, has a lifespan of 1,103 generations.
- R-tree noun A kind of tree data structure used to group objects by nearness of location, representing them by their minimum bounding rectangles in the…
- rabbit noun A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position.…
- Rabin-Karp algorithm noun A string-searching algorithm that uses hashing to find an exact match of a pattern string in a text.
- race noun A race condition; a bug or problem that occurs when two or more components attempt to use the same resource at the same time.
- race condition noun A flaw in a system or process whereby the output or result is unexpectedly and critically dependent on the sequence or timing of other…
- race rotation noun The rotation of the inner and outer parts of a bearing race.
- rack noun A bar with teeth on its face or edge, to work with those of a gearwheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive or be driven by it.
- racy adj Involving a data race or a race condition.
- rad noun Abbreviation of sight radius.
- radiant heat noun Heat or warmth transferred directly to people and objects in a space via infrared radiation, similar to the sun's warmth, rather than…
- radiator noun A device that lowers engine coolant temperature by conducting heat to the air, through metal fins.
- radio beacon noun A beacon that emits radio wave signals to guide ships or aircraft or to indicate the position of a ship, aircraft, or other object, person…
- radio button noun Any of a group of widgets in a graphical user interface that is used to select one of a group of options; the selection of any one…
- radio-frequency identification noun The storage and retrieval of data using tags attached to individual packages, animals or people; the tags contain an integrated circuit to…
- radiogram noun Synonym of radiotelegram (“a message, like a telegram, transmitted by wireless telegraphy (“telegraphy by radio rather than by transmission…
- radiosity noun A three-dimensional rendering system that simulates all reflections from objects in the scene.
- radius of gyration noun Given a body B, the distance from a given axis of rotation at which a point mass of the same mass as B would have the same moment of…
- radix sort noun Any of various sorting algorithms in which items are processed according to the value of each digit or character in turn
- radix tree noun A space-optimized trie data structure in which each node that is the only child is merged with its parent.
- raft verb To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space.
- ragdoll noun A model consisting of a set of connected rigid bodies that can collapse in a loose, natural manner.
- ragdoll physics noun Physics based around ragdolls (models consisting of a set of connected rigid bodies that can collapse in a loose, natural manner).
- ragged adj Of a data structure: having uneven levels.
- rail noun A conductor maintained at a fixed electrical potential relative to ground, to which other circuit components are connected.
- rail fence cipher noun A transposition cipher in which the plain text is written in a zigzag fashion diagonally up and down on successive "rails" of an imaginary…
- rainbow adj Of or pertaining to rainbow tables.
- raise verb To emboss (sheet metal), or to form it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- rake noun A type of puffer train that leaves behind a stream of spaceships as it moves.
- ram air turbine noun A small wind turbine mounted on an aircraft and used to generate electrical or hydraulic power from the force of air moving past the…
- ram-pack noun A hardware module containing RAM for use by another device.
- ramjet noun A jet engine in which forward motion forces air into an inlet, compressing it (as opposed to having a pump type device compressing the air…
- ramp noun A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.
- rampable adj Able to be ramped, or made to change value at a steady rate.
- ramrod noun Device used with muzzleloaders to push the projectile up against the propellant.
- rand noun A random number.
- random adj Pseudorandom; mimicking the result of random selection.
- random access adj Capable of being accessed in any order, not required to be sequential.
- random access memory noun Computer memory, usually volatile, that stores program and data values during operation and in which each word of memory may be directly…
- random function noun A function whose formula is always the same, but whose initial value is chosen at random from a set of possible values (its domain).
- randomized polynomial time noun The complexity class of problems for which a probabilistic Turing machine exists with certain properties.
- randomly adv By random access; at any point at a given time; not sequentially.
- range noun A sequential list of values specified by an iterator.
- range extender noun A device which extends a signal beyond its normal limit.
- range safety noun The ensuring of the monitoring of the flight paths of missiles and launch vehicles, as well as the enforcement of strict guidelines for…
- range safety system noun A system that reduces the risk to the public by ensuring flight safety by monitoring the flight paths of missiles and launch vehicles.
- rangeable adj Supporting the use of ranges.
- rap verb To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.
- RAR noun A RAR file.
- raster noun A scanning pattern of parallel lines that form the display of an image projected on a cathode-ray tube of a television set or display…
- raster graphics noun A data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other…
- rat's nest noun A software or hardware system whose design lacks organized structure, making it difficult to understand and maintain.
- ratchet noun A mechanism for generating a new unique key for each message by moving forward in a sequence.
- rate limit noun The maximum number of requests in a given timeframe that are able to be made to a server that uses rate limiting.
- rate of climb indicator noun An instrument installed in an aircraft that indicates the rate at which the aircraft is gaining or losing altitude.
- rated adj maximum (load, voltage, etc.) under which a device can function properly
- ratiometric adj Describing any system in which an output is directly proportional to an input
- RATO noun Initialism of rocket-assisted takeoff, an auxiliary rocket engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an…
- ravel verb In the APL programming language: to reshape (a variable) into a vector.
- ravelled adj Of a variable in the APL programming language: which has been reshaped into a vector.
- ravelling noun In the APL programming language: the act of reshaping a variable into a vector.
- ravioli code noun Overly structured program source code, with many small sections, functions, etc. that should be combined.
- ray marching noun An advanced form of ray tracing in which the imaginary light rays are not merely computed where they intersect with solid parts of the…
- ray tracing noun A technique that produces realistically shaded images by projecting imaginary light rays to determine which parts of an object should be…
- Rayleigh's resolution limit noun The minimum angular separation between two point sources that an optical system can resolve, limited by diffraction.
- rd noun Abbreviation of round.
- re-entry noun The return of a spacecraft into the Earth's atmosphere.
- reaccess verb To access again.
- reaccommodate verb to rebook a passenger on a flight when the original flight is cancelled.
- reaction mass noun Working mass.
- reactivator noun A device that removes hydrogen sulfide from a solution.
- reactive adj Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
- reactive programming noun A declarative programming paradigm where changes to values are automatically propagated, without the need for explicit reassignment.
- reactor noun A structure used to contain chemical or other reactions.
- read verb To be able to hear what another person is saying over a radio connection.
- read receipt noun An automatic response, often containing a timestamp, which notifies the sender of an e-mail or instant message that the message was opened.
- read through adj A cache that will fetch information from the original source when asked for information that is not yet cached.
- read-around ratio noun In cathode-ray-tube storage systems, the number of times that a value can be read from a given cell without corrupting adjacent stored…
- read-only access noun A permission to access files or directories where the user is only allowed to read or view, not to make changes.
- read-only memory noun A computer memory chip that stores values but does not allow updates, in which the values are nonvolatile in that they are retained even…
- readahead noun The operation of reading data from a storage medium in advance so that it is immediately available when requested.
- readback noun The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.
- readers-writers problem noun Any of a class of problems in which many concurrent threads of execution try to access the same shared resource at one time, with…
- readout noun The information output from a computer in a readable form.
- readtable noun In Lisp and related languages, a data structure specifying how text characters are to be interpreted syntactically.
- ready queue noun A data structure that holds a process that is ready to run, but is unable to do so because the CPU is already occupied.
- real noun A real number.
- real mode noun The default operational mode of x86-compatible CPUs, offering direct software access to all memory and peripherals but without the advanced…
- real number noun A floating-point number.
- Real Programmer noun An archetypal highly skilled programmer, who eschews abstractions and convenient modern tools and methods of programming, instead…