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 69 of 91: from “runout” to “screenshot”.
- runout noun Deviation of the axis of rotation of a rotating object (especially a milling cutter or workpiece) relative to that object's centerline; the…
- runt noun An Ethernet packet that does not meet the medium's minimum packet size of 64 bytes.
- runway noun A section of land, usually paved, for airplanes to land on or take off from.
- rupture noun A failure mode in which a tough ductile material pulls apart rather than cracking.
- Russian copulation noun A method of rearranging plaintext before encryption by breaking it into two parts and inverting their order, so as to conceal obvious…
- Russification noun Enabling a computer system to work with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
- RY noun A test pattern consisting of a repeating character string alternating letters R and Y, used to test five-level teleprinter and…
- S plane noun The complex plane on which Laplace transforms are graphed; a mathematical domain where processes are viewed in the frequency domain rather…
- S-box noun A basic component of symmetric-key algorithms, which performs substitution, transforming one set of bits into another.
- saccade noun A rapid movement of the eye (either voluntary or involuntary) from one focus to another. (Often described as a jerky movement, but this…
- saddle noun An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- saddle carbine noun a short carbine intended for use on horseback, typically with a very short barrel and a saddle ring.
- saddle point noun Such a point in the graphical representation of the possible outcomes of a game.
- saddle ring noun A small metal ring on the side of a firearm, allowing it to be hung on a saddle hook or attached to a lanyard.
- safe adj Of a programming language, type-safe or more generally offering well-defined behavior despite programming errors.
- safe mode noun A troubleshooting mode of many operating systems in which most advanced functions are not activated.
- safe navigation operator noun A binary operator that returns its second argument, unless the first argument is null, in which case it returns null; used to simplify code…
- safety noun A safety lock or safety catch: a mechanism on a weapon or dangerous equipment designed to prevent accidental firing or operation.
- safety factor noun The ratio of the maximum stress or load which something can withstand to the stress or load which it was designed to withstand under normal…
- safety lock noun A lock with some device for preventing accidental firing of the weapon.
- sailcraft noun A spacecraft endowed with sail for propulsion purposes.
- salamander noun Solidified material in a furnace hearth.
- salami attack noun An attack against a system that consists of many minor actions (such as stealing small amounts of funds from multiple bank accounts) and is…
- salt noun A sequence of random data added to plain text data (such as passwords or messages) prior to encryption or hashing, in order to make brute…
- sample verb To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal.
- sampling noun The measurement, at regular intervals, of the amplitude of a varying waveform in order to convert it to digital form.
- sand battery noun An unspillable electrochemical battery whose cells use electrolyte soaked sand – typically used to test telegraph cables at sea.
- sandbox verb To restrict (a program, etc.) by placing it in a sandbox.
- sandboxer noun A process that sandboxes others.
- sandpile noun Any of several models in which a series of connected nodes interact with their neighbours according to fixed rules.
- sandwich shell noun A structure consisting of a core (which can be foam or solid, honeycomb, web, corrugated or truss) sandwiched between two thinner outer…
- sandy noun The A-1 Sky Raider aircraft.
- sanitize verb To filter (text) to ensure it does not contain any characters that will cause problems for or be interpreted in an adverse way by the…
- sanitizer noun A program to detect errors in code, usually integrated into a compiler.
- sash noun A draggable vertical or horizontal bar used to adjust the relative sizes of two adjacent windows.
- saturate verb To render pure, or of a colour free from white light.
- saturated adj Conforming to saturation arithmetic.
- saturation noun The condition at which a component of the system has reached its maximum traffic-handling capacity, i.e. one erlang per circuit.
- Saturn V noun A US moonshot rocket from the 1960s and 70s
- saucisse noun A long and slender pipe or bag, made of cloth well pitched, or of leather, filled with powder, and used to communicate fire to mines…
- sausage verb To form a sausage-like shape, with a non-uniform cross section.
- save noun The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
- savepoint noun A point during a transaction at which changes are committed, and to which the user can roll back if necessary.
- savestate noun A file that contains an emulator's or virtualizer's state at the moment it was saved to disk. The file contains the contents of the memory…
- saw tooth adj Describing a function or waveform that consists of repeated triangular transitions when graphed.
- sawtooth noun A pattern whose living cell population reaches new peaks infinitely many times before dropping to a fixed value after each peak.
- scaffold noun An accumulation of adherent, partly fused material forming a shelf or dome-shaped obstruction above the tuyeres in a blast furnace.
- scaffolder noun A software tool that creates the basic framework or template for a new project.
- scaffolding noun Source code etc. that is incomplete and serves as a basis for further development.
- scag verb To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the file system or by causing media damage.
- scalable adj Able to greatly increase in capacity, with relative ease.
- scalar adj Consisting of a single value (e.g. integer or string) rather than multiple values (e.g. array).
- scale verb To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- scale out verb To scale up (a system) by adding more servers or nodes.
- scalogram noun A visual representation of a wavelet transform, having axes for time, scale, and coefficient value, analogous to a spectrogram
- scamware noun Software that fraudulently fails to do what it is claimed to do. Also, scamware can lead your data to data brokers
- scan verb To inspect, analyse or go over, often to find something.
- scan line noun One of the horizontal lines that compose a raster scanning pattern, as on a television or computer display.
- scancode noun A numeric code transmitted by a computer keyboard to indicate which keys are currently being pressed.
- scanout noun The conversion of image data in computer memory to a series of lines for output to a raster display.
- scarab noun The currency sign ¤.
- scareware noun Software that attempts to scare the user into compliance, as by displaying false warnings of virus infection.
- scatter/gather adj Being or relating to a form of I/O by which a single procedure call sequentially writes data from multiple buffers to a single data stream…
- scattergun noun Synonym of shotgun.
- scavenge pump noun A fuel pump used to remove the last dregs of usable fuel from a fuel tank once the fuel level in the tank has fallen too low for the…
- scene verb Short for demoscene.
- schedule noun An allocation or ordering of a set of tasks on one or several resources.
- scheduler noun An operating system component responsible for allocating several resources, most commonly the use of processors by different concurrent…
- schema noun A formal description of the structure of a database: the names of the tables, the names of the columns of each table, and the data type and…
- schemer noun A person who programs in Scheme.
- Schmitt trigger noun A comparator circuit with hysteresis implemented by applying positive feedback to the non-inverting input of a comparator or differential…
- Schnellbomber noun A type of German World War 2 bomber designed to outrun fighters as part of its defensive capability.
- schroedinbug noun A software bug which begins to manifest only when somebody debugging the code finds out that it should not work at all.
- scientific calculator noun An electronic calculator that can handle trigonometric, exponential and often other advanced functions, and can show its output in…
- scientific computing noun The use of computing to solve scientific and engineering problems, especially by means of simulation, or the construction of mathematical…
- scissors noun A type of defensive maneuver in dogfighting, involving repeatedly turning one's aircraft towards that of the attacker in order to force…
- scooper noun A type of air tanker waterbomber airplane, which is capable of landing on water, and directly scooping up water to fill its tanks, by…
- scope noun A device used in aiming a projectile, through which the person aiming looks at the intended target.
- scorefile noun A file containing criteria for assigning a score to each email message received, for purposes of filtering out spam, etc.
- scoria noun The slag or dross that remains after the smelting of metal from an ore.
- scourge noun A whip, often made of leather and having multiple tails; a lash.
- scramjet noun A jet engine capable of propelling an aircraft at hypersonic speeds, in which combustion of the fuel and air mixture occurs at supersonic…
- scrape verb To extract data by automated means from a format not intended to be machine-readable, such as a screenshot or a formatted web page.
- scraper noun A program or process that scrapes data, such as a screen-scraper.
- scraping noun Automated collection of data, data scraping.
- scratch adj Relating to a scratchpad, a data structure or recording medium attached to a machine for testing or temporary use.
- scratcher noun A user of the Scratch visual programming language.
- scratchpad noun A piece of temporary memory to hold details of a current conversation, usually scratchpad memory.
- screen noun The visualised data or imagery displayed on a computer screen.
- screen mask noun A tool that follows the mouse or touch input and helps eliminate distractions on a page.
- screen memory noun A portion of computer memory storing the graphics currently displayed on the screen.
- screen motion capture noun The digital recording, by software, of a moving image displayed upon a screen in order to allow manipulation and playback.
- screen name noun a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc; a pseudonym used for online communication.
- screen reader noun A software application that speaks aloud information from a computer display, for users with impaired vision.
- screen tearing noun A phenomenon where the image on a screen appears to horizontally "tear" in two due to lack of synchronization between the video feed and…
- screen-scrape verb To extract data from (a source such as a webpage) by picking it out from among the human-readable content.
- screengrab noun A screenshot.
- screenname noun a string of characters used to identify a user of a bulletin board, e-mail etc; a pseudonym used for online communication.
- screensaver noun A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used, originally intended to prevent…
- screenshot noun An image of computer or smartphone screen output at a given moment in time.