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 74 of 91: from “sniff” to “spacecut”.
- sniff verb To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
- sniffer noun A software or hardware tool for intercepting and logging network traffic.
- snippet verb To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.
- snoopware noun Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to steal confidential data.
- snowflake verb To arrange (data) into a snowflake schema.
- snowflake schema noun A logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles a snowflake shape.
- snozzle noun A reinforced firefighting nozzle used to pierce the exterior skin of an aircraft and spray water or firefighting foam inside the aircraft…
- SNR noun signal-to-noise ratio
- snubnosed revolver noun A small, medium, or large frame revolver with a short barrel, generally less than four inches in length.
- snug noun A lug.
- soak verb To heat (a metal) before shaping it.
- soap film noun Any thin layer of liquid (usually water-based) surrounded by air, such as that formed when two soap bubbles come into contact; networks of…
- sociometer noun A wearable sensor device to measure face-to-face interactions of people.
- sock noun Ellipsis of gun sock.
- socket noun An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket).
- socketless adj Without the use of network sockets.
- sockfarm noun A coordinated network of fake online accounts, or "sock puppets", created and operated by a single individual or group to manipulate online…
- soft noun A piece of software.
- soft break noun A soft line break: any of certain kinds of line break (depending on implementation details) that cause a newline (i.e., line feed plus…
- soft deletion noun An operation in which a flag is used to mark data as unusable, without erasing the data itself from the database.
- soft error noun A type of transient error where a signal or datum is momentarily wrong, caused for example by an ionizing particle striking a chip.
- soft hyphen noun A generally invisible text character marking a point where hyphenation can occur without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if…
- soft key noun A button, located along a display device, which performs whatever function is shown near it on the display.
- soft landing noun A landing that does not result in the destruction of the payload or the vehicle.
- soft launch noun The launch of a missile in such a way that the rocket motor ignites outside of the launch tube, ejecting the missile non-explosively.
- soft point adj Of a bullet: having an exposed lead point, designed to expand when it hits its target and therefore cause more damage.
- soft real-time adj Being or relating to a system that is ideally real-time but in practice can tolerate some latency that only reduces the quality of service.
- soft reboot noun Synonym of warm boot.
- soft reset noun A process of restarting an electronic device without diminishing its power, typically by using the device's built-in restart function.
- soft return noun The type of newline that represents either a natural line break resulting from word wrap, or one specifically inserted inside a paragraph…
- soft sectoring noun The recording of layout data onto a magnetic or optical recording medium in order to designate the sector locations, as opposed to using…
- soft-dotted adj Of a character: having a dot that is removed when an accent is applied, as for example with the character i becoming í.
- soft-land verb To land (a vehicle or other payload) on the surface of a body in such a manner that it survives the landing mostly or entirely intact and…
- softcode verb To construct a program in a way which ensures that certain values and methods of operation are adjustable at run time.
- softfloat adj (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft…
- softlifting noun The purchasing of a single licensed copy of a software program and the loading of it on several machines, contrary to terms of agreement.
- softmask verb To convert hard edges in an image to soft ones, by the use of a "fuzzy" mask.
- softmodem noun A modem with minimal hardware capabilities, designed to use a host computer's resources to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated…
- softnose adj Of a bullet: lacking a jacketed nose and thereby deforming greatly on impact, causing a large amount of damage; soft-nosed.
- softography noun A comprehensive list of the software made by a particular software engineer or organization, usually appearing on a resume, curriculum…
- software noun Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
- software archaeology noun The study of poorly documented or undocumented legacy software implementations, as part of maintaining those systems.
- software architect noun An architect (not to be confused with a designer) of software based on technology, who prepares plans and superintends construction of that…
- software assurance noun The level of confidence that software is free from vulnerabilities, either intentionally designed or accidentally inserted at any time.
- software crisis noun The difficulty of writing useful and efficient computer programs in the required time, due to the rapid increases in computer power and the…
- software defined radio noun A radio that creates and receives radio signals through software controlled DSPs (digital signal processors) with ADCs (analog-to-digital…
- software escrow noun The holding of software source code by a third party in order to protect customers against the future insolvency of the software supplier
- software framework noun An abstraction used in software development to provide generic functionality for application-specific software.
- software package noun A suite of programs that function as a single entity to accomplish a task, or group of related tasks.
- softwire noun A type of tunnelling protocol that creates a virtual "wire" that transparently encapsulates another protocol as if were an anonymous…
- softy noun A software expert who is ignorant of the workings of hardware.
- solar generator noun A battery box, capable of providing power in amounts like a generator. It is not a generator, not generating any electricity from fuel…
- solar power noun The conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics, indirectly using concentrated solar power, or…
- solar sail noun A sail-like structure on a spacecraft consisting of very large ultrathin mirrors, with propulsion being achieved by the radiation pressure…
- solder mask noun A thin lacquer-like layer of polymer that is usually applied to the copper traces of a printed circuit board for protection against…
- solder stop noun Synonym of solder mask.
- solenoid noun An electromechanical device consisting of such a coil containing a metal core, the movement of which is controlled by the current.
- solid model noun A type of computer model (of a physical object) that is defined geometrically as consisting of virtual 3D solid shapes rather than as other…
- solid rocket noun A rocket engine (rocket motor) that uses a solid propellant that, when combusted, generates gases which are used for rocket propulsion.
- solid-state adj Of an electronic component, based upon semiconductors, as distinct from older technologies such as vacuum tubes.
- solid-state battery noun An electrical battery that uses a solid electrolyte to conduct ions between the electrodes, instead of the liquid or gel polymer…
- solid-state device noun Any device which employs the electric, magnetic or optical properties of a solid, especially of semiconductors.
- solid-state drive noun A solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and…
- solion noun An electrochemical device of the 1950s, intended to replace the transistor in certain situations, and using ions rather than electrons to…
- Solomonoff induction noun A form of induction, involving Bayes' theorem, that derives the posterior probability of any computable theory, given a sequence of…
- solvable adj Such that the set of inputs for which the answer is yes is recursively enumerable.
- somatogravic illusion noun An illusory perception of one's pitch angle, due to the effects of linear acceleration on the vestibular system of the inner ear.
- son noun The current version of a file, derived from the preceding father file.
- sonic boom noun The audible effect of a shock wave in the air, especially one caused by an aircraft flying faster than the speed of sound.
- sort noun An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence.
- sortable noun A component that allows a sequence of items to be reordered via drag and drop.
- sortie noun An operational flight carried out by a single military aircraft.
- soto phrase Sold outside, ticketed outside,(relative to the country of origin of travel).
- soufflé adj Decorated with very small drops or sprinkles of colour, as if blown from a bellows.
- soundboard noun A mixing console used to combine and blend different audio sources to a single output.
- Soundex noun A phonetic algorithm for indexing names by their English pronunciation, based on the most probably significant consonants, so that a search…
- soundiness noun A state of being mostly sound; the condition of being rigorously sound in all but some well-defined areas; a best approximation of…
- sounding rocket noun A suborbital rocket used to launch upper atmosphere, exoatmospheric, and microgravity sondes or probes.
- soundy adj Mostly sound; sound in all but a few well-defined areas.
- soup noun Any random starting pattern, typically studied to see what sorts of resultant more stable patterns emerge when evolved over subsequent…
- source noun Source code.
- source code noun Human-readable instructions in a programming language, to be transformed into machine instructions by a compiler, assembler or other…
- source configuration management noun The management of changes to files such as source code, documents, large web sites, or other collections of information.
- source control noun A technology that handles access to computer files containing source code so that several users can work on the files without interfering…
- source language noun The language of the source code to be compiled.
- source-available adj Whose source code can be viewed, and in some cases modified, but which itself is not necessarily open-source.
- Sourcemod noun a Folder on Valve games to put Custom Add-ons
- sourcerer noun A programmer, a coder, someone who works with source code.
- south pole noun The negative pole of a magnetic dipole that seeks geographic south.
- southpole noun Dated form of south pole (“one of the two poles of a magnet”).
- space bar noun A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.
- space bridge noun Synonym of space elevator.
- space cloth noun A partially conductive cloth or sheet, especially one whose resistance matches the impedance of free space (377 ohms per square).
- space complexity noun A measure of the amount of space, or memory required by an algorithm to solve a given decision problem. An informal analogy would be the…
- space dust noun A part of a spaceship or oscillator that appears to consist of a random mixture of alive and dead cells, usually making it very difficult…
- space equivalent zone noun The top of the Earth's atmosphere, from 50,000 ft (the start of the stratosphere) and up (to the edge of the exosphere at 1000 mi); where…
- space jellyfish noun An atmospheric phenomenon of the early morning or late evening, where the ground is in nighttime, but sunlight shines through the upper…
- space-cadet keyboard noun A style of computer keyboard, traditionally used on MIT Lisp machines, equipped with seven modifier keys and three shift keys, arranged to…
- space-time trade-off noun A case where an algorithm or program trades increased space usage with decreased time, in which space refers to the data storage consumed…
- spacecut noun An animated visual effect in which one polyhedron intersects another, forming an empty space where their volumes overlap.