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 77 of 91: from “stop list” to “subjoin”.
- stop list noun A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation.
- stop off verb To fill (a part of a mould) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
- stop word noun A word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is ignored when searches are conducted on a database, search engine, etc.
- storage noun Any computer device, including such as a disk, on which data is stored for a longer term than main memory.
- storage hypervisor noun A hardware-independent supervisory software program that operates as a transparent virtual layer across consolidated disk pools providing…
- storage time noun The amount of time that an electronic device can store energy.
- storage tube noun A class of a cathode ray tube that is designed to hold an image for a long period of time, typically as long as power is supplied to the…
- storage unit noun A device or medium that stores data and information for long-term or permanent use.
- store noun Memory.
- store and forward noun The technique of having information sent to an intermediate station where it is kept and later relayed to its destination.
- storeback noun The storage of a previously retrieved value back into memory.
- story noun Ellipsis of user story.
- story point noun In agile software development, a relative unit of measure denoting the amount of effort required to complete a task or user story.
- stovepipe verb Of a cartridge case, to become wedged vertically in the ejection port of a breechloading firearm, rather than ejecting completely from the…
- STP noun Initialism of spanning tree protocol.
- strafe verb To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft.
- straight adj Having all cylinders in a single straight line; in-line.
- straight-eight noun An engine with eight cylinders in one line or row.
- straight-six noun An internal combustion engine, with six cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase with all the pistons driving a common…
- strain noun A dimensionless measure of object deformation either referring to engineering strain or true strain.
- strake noun A type of aerodynamic surface mounted on an aircraft fuselage to fine-tune the airflow.
- strand noun A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.
- strap on noun A strap-on booster.
- strapdown noun An inertial navigation system that eliminates the gimbal in favour of a lightweight digital computer having sensors that are simply…
- strappable adj Able to be linked in series.
- strapper noun A wire that joins two light switches so that a light can be turned off or on from either switch.
- strategyproof adj Of an asymmetric game where players have private information: such that there is no incentive for any of the players to hide or lie about…
- stratum noun The level of accuracy of a computer's clock, relative to others on the network.
- straw man noun An outline serving as an initial proposal for a project, usually refined iteratively.
- stream noun A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
- stream cipher noun a symmetric-key cipher in which plaintext digits are combined with a pseudorandom cipher digit stream
- stream deck noun A customizable keypad for online video streamers, with buttons controlling features such as muting the microphone or launching a program.
- streamer noun A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape; a…
- streaming noun The transmission of digital audio or video, or the reception or playback of such data without first storing it.
- streaming encoder noun A tool that converts raw video and audio signals into a digital format suitable for transmission over the Internet.
- streaming media noun The continuous delivery and playback of audio and video content over a network without the need to first download the entire file.
- streaming tape noun A data storage technology using magnetic tape where the tape is in constant motion while reading or writing data.
- street BASIC noun Any variety of the BASIC programming language that lacks good structure and encourages poor programming practices.
- stress test noun A DDoS
- strickle noun A bevel-edged finishing tool used for smoothing the surface of a mold, core, or mold in sand or loam.
- stride noun The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- strike while the iron is hot verb To strike a hot piece of metal, especially iron, with a mallet or other tool before it cools, while it is still hot enough to be shaped.
- strikeout verb To cancel a portion of text by crossing it out without deleting it; strikethrough.
- striker noun A mechanism of a firearm acting upon the firing pin.
- string noun An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- string distance noun Any of several metrics that represent the degree of similarity between two strings of characters, based on the smallest number of…
- string substitution noun The semantics-free search and replacement of one sequence of text characters with another.
- stringable adj Able to be converted to a string of text characters.
- stringly-typed adj Characterized by an excessive use of strings to represent non-textual data.
- stringy adj Resembling or involving text strings.
- stripboard noun A type of prototyping board characterized by a ⅒″ regular rectangular grid of holes, with wide parallel strips of copper cladding running…
- stripe verb To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write.
- stripless adj Without the use of paper control strips.
- stripper noun A stripper clip.
- stripping noun A physical separation process where one or more components are removed from a liquid stream by a vapor stream
- strobe noun An electronic signal in hardware indicating that a value is ready to be read.
- stroke noun A single movement or thrust of a reciprocating device (such as a piston or connecting rod).
- strong typing noun A system that places any of various kinds of restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.
- strongback noun A vertical structure used to support and stabilize a rocket, often hosting fuel and power umbilical connections. Usually retracted…
- strongly-typed adj Belonging to a type system that enforces variables matching (or easily convertible to) the expected types.
- strop verb To mark a sequence of letters syntactically as having a special property, such as being a keyword, e.g. by enclosing in apostrophes as in…
- struct noun A data structure, especially one that serves to group a number of fields (in contrast to an object-oriented class with methods) or one that…
- structural failure noun Loss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated…
- structure noun Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
- structured programming noun A style of programming that relies on blocks of code, subroutines and the absence of simple tests and jumps
- structured wiring noun A planned cabling system which systematically lays out the wiring and wire management necessary for communications, including voice, data…
- stub noun A placeholder procedure that has the signature of the planned procedure but does not yet implement the intended behavior.
- stubbify verb To make (something) use stubs (placeholder procedures).
- stubby Hubble noun A spy satellite with a design similar to the Hubble Space Telescope.
- stubify verb To make something use stubs (placeholder procedures).
- stud noun A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.
- studly caps noun Synonym of upper camel case.
- stuff verb To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- stylable adj Capable of being formatted with styles.
- style noun A visual or other modification to text or other elements of a document, such as boldface or italics.
- stylesheet noun A document consisting of markup that describes the layout and presentation to be used when displaying other documents.
- stylet noun A poniard or stiletto.
- stylus noun A small device resembling a pen used to input handwritten text or drawings directly into an electronic device with a touch-sensitive screen.
- subaddress noun A secondary or subsidiary part of an address.
- subagent noun An autonomous process that is launched by and communicates with another agent in order to handle part of the task that is the objective of…
- subbase noun The lowest course in typical road, driveway, path or sports court construction, above which is the base course, and finally the surface…
- subcarrier noun A separate signal carried on a main radio transmission, often carrying additional information such as voice or data.
- subcategory noun A subclass of a category which is itself a category, whose arrows are a restriction of the arrows of the parent category, and whose…
- subchannel noun A distinct part of an I/O channel associated with a specific device.
- subclass verb (in object-oriented programming) To create a subclass of (some class).
- subcommand noun A command that makes up part of a larger command.
- subcookie noun A cookie-like piece of data stored with others in a single cookie (so as to circumvent restrictions on the number of cookies a single web…
- subcube noun A subset of a cube (data structure).
- subdialog noun A dialog box opened from another dialog box.
- subdisk noun Any of the disks making up a RAID array.
- suberror noun A specific error belonging to a general class of errors.
- subfeed noun A part of an electricity or antenna feed.
- subform noun A secondary window opened from another (parent) window.
- subfunctor noun A functor such that all of the objects it maps are mapped by the parent functor, and for any arrow it maps the parent functor includes the…
- subgame noun A subset of a game that can be considered a game in its own right.
- subgauge adj Smaller in bore diameter than the standard gauge specified; most often describing a shotgun with a bore smaller than 12-gauge.
- subinterface noun A division of one physical interface into multiple logical interfaces.
- subject indexing noun The act of describing a document by index terms to indicate what the document is about or to summarize its content, the index terms often…
- subject-oriented adj Of or pertaining to a software paradigm in which the state (fields) and behavior (methods) of objects are not seen as intrinsic to the…
- subjoin noun A subordinate or secondary join.