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 79 of 91: from “surface” to “tail”.
- surface noun A portion of the display to which graphics can be rendered.
- surface finish noun The quality of a surface, in terms of its roughness, microscopic pattern (lay) and macroscopic pattern (waviness).
- surface-conduction electron-emitter display noun a flat panel display technology that uses surface conduction electron emitters to provide electrons for every pixel. The electrons strike…
- surface-mount adj Of electronic components, able to be soldered on top of printed circuit boards.
- surface-mount technology noun A method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board.
- surfel noun A unit square between voxels.
- surge noun A sudden electrical spike or increase of voltage and current.
- surrogate noun Any of a range of Unicode codepoints which are used in pairs in UTF-16 to represent characters beyond the Basic Multilingual Plane.
- surrogate pair noun The UTF-16 representation of a supplementary character, using one high surrogate and one low surrogate to encode the 20-bit offset above…
- surveillance approach noun A type of ground-controlled approach (GCA) to a runway, where the air traffic controller talks the pilot aviator down onto the runway with…
- survival weapon noun A firearm or other tool that is lightweight, reliable, and easy to carry or store, specifically chosen or designed to assist a person…
- suspend verb To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- sustainer noun A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
- SVG noun A graphic stored in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.
- swage block noun A perforated iron block with grooved sides and variously-sized holes in its face, used to hold in hot metal bars while swaging large…
- swap noun Space available in a swap file for use as auxiliary memory.
- swap chain noun A series of virtual framebuffers used by the graphics card and API for frame rate stabilization, stutter reduction, etc.
- swap in verb To retrieve (memory contents) from a swap file.
- swap out verb To transfer (memory contents) into a swap file.
- swapper noun A group member responsible for acquiring and distributing new software releases.
- swappiness noun A setting in the Linux kernel determining the balance between swapping out runtime memory and dropping pages from the system page cache.
- swarm noun A group of nodes sharing the same torrent in a BitTorrent network.
- swash noun The water that washes up on shore after an incoming wave has broken.
- sweep noun The degree to which an aircraft's wings are angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from their attachments to the fuselage.
- swept wing noun A wing that is angled backwards (or, occasionally, forwards) from its point of attachment to the fuselage, so that the wingtip is located…
- SWF noun A file encoded in the defunct Adobe Flash file format SWF.
- swing verb To admit or turn something for the purpose of shaping it; said of a lathe.
- swipe noun An act of interacting with a touch screen by drawing the finger rapidly across it.
- switch noun A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- switch engine noun A particular methuselah in Conway's Game of Life that temporarily exhibits glide reflection symmetry while leaving debris behind, allowing…
- switchback noun A flight path consisting of a series of steep ascents and descents, generally flown as a stunt.
- switchboard noun The electronic panel that is used to direct telephone calls to the desired recipient.
- switcher noun A switchmode power supply.
- switchgear noun A device used to control, meter, protect, and regulate electronics as part of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.
- switching noun The process of transferring data packets from one device to another in a network, or from one network to another.
- switchmode adj Being or relating to a power supply that incorporates a switching regulator to convert electrical power efficiently.
- switchyard noun Synonym of substation.
- swivel noun A piece, such as a ring or hook, attached to another piece by a pin, in such a manner as to permit rotation about the pin as an axis.
- swizzle noun The conversion of portable symbols or positions to memory-dependent pointers during deserialization.
- symbol noun An internal identifier used by a debugger to relate parts of the compiled program to the corresponding names in the source code.
- symbol table noun A data structure where symbols (identifiers) are associated with information relating to their declaration or appearance in the source code.
- symbolic expression noun A means of representing semistructured data in human-readable text form, mostly composed of symbols and lists and extensively used in the…
- symbolicate verb To replace memory addresses with symbols (names of methods, classes etc.) in a stack trace, to aid in debugging.
- symlink noun A symbolic link.
- symmetric adj Using the same key (or keys that are trivially related) for both encryption and decryption.
- sync verb To flush all pending I/O operations to disk.
- synchicity noun The degree of synchronization between multimedia elements, e.g. between audio and video or between audio and subtitles.
- synchro noun A type of rotary electrical transformer that is used for measuring the angle of a rotating machine such as an antenna platform. In its…
- synchronization domain noun In the context of thread synchronization, a collection of contexts and objects that share a single lock.
- synchronize verb To cause (a set of files, data, or settings) on one computer or device to be (and try to remain) the same as on another.
- synchronizer noun A kind of arbiter.
- synchronous adj Interacting with other elements in series; blocking; interacting with the same program or thread as other operations, thereby preventing…
- syncword noun A short marker used to synchronize a transmission by indicating the end of the header information and the start of the data.
- synonym noun An alternative (often shorter) name defined for an object in a database.
- synonymizer noun A piece of software that replaces words in a provided text with words of a similar meaning.
- synset noun A set of one or more synonyms that are interchangeable in some context without changing the truth value of the proposition in which they…
- syntactic sugar noun Additions to the syntax of a programming language that make code easier for humans to read or write, but that do not change the…
- syntax noun The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
- syntax error noun An error in the syntax of a sequence of characters or tokens that is intended to be written in a particular programming language.
- synthesis noun Creation of a complex waveform by summation of simpler waveforms.
- synthesizer noun An electronic circuit that generates an electronic signal oscillation with accurate timing from a reference oscillator.
- syntony noun A condition in which two oscillators have the same resonant frequency.
- sysop noun A system operator, especially someone who administers an online communications system or bulletin board.
- sysroot noun A directory containing all the header files, configuration files and libraries required to build a program, often used in cross-compilation.
- system noun A set of hardware and software operating in a computer.
- system bus noun A single computer bus that connects the major components of a computer system, combining the functions of a data bus, an address bus, and a…
- system call noun A function provided by an operating system to allow userspace programs access to privileged features, such as accessing the system's…
- system pull noun A new computer part that has been removed from an unused, previously assembled system.
- system tray noun The portion of the taskbar that displays the system time and icons for running processes, which can often launch menus for those processes.
- systems analysis noun A range of techniques used especially in commercial computing in which the needs of a company or its staff are analysed and translated into…
- systems analyst noun A person whose job is to perform systems analysis by being responsible for researching, planning and recommending software and system…
- systolic adj Relating to a systolic array
- systolic array noun In parallel computer architectures, a homogeneous network of tightly coupled data processing units (DPUs), each of which independently…
- Sziklai pair noun A configuration of two bipolar transistors, similar to a Darlington pair but having one NPN and one PNP transistor.
- T wave noun Synonym of T-ray.
- T-ray noun An electromagnetic wave with a frequency intermediate between, and sharing the properties of, short radio waves and long infrared waves…
- T-tail noun A type of aircraft that has the horizontal stabilizer situated atop, or near the top of, the vertical stabilizer.
- tab noun A navigational widget, resembling a physical tab, for switching between documents or sets of controls.
- tab control noun A control consisting of a number of screens (tab pages) that occupy the same visible space and can be selected by clicking a protruding tab.
- tab index noun A number assigned to a control on the display, designating its position in the sequence of controls that the user can move through by…
- tab leader noun In word processing, a series of repeated text characters filling the area of a tab stop, such as the row of periods/dots leading to the…
- tab out verb To press the Tab key and a modifier key to move between tabs or windows.
- tab stop noun A horizontal column in a text document to which the cursor jumps when the Tab key is pressed, used for alignment.
- tabbed adj Having tabs (the user interface element).
- tabber noun A user who switches between tabs.
- table noun A lookup table, most often a set of vectors.
- tablet noun A graphics tablet.
- tabling noun The uses of a table that contains the results of subproblems which can then be used later in the solving of a problem when the same…
- tabulation noun A printout
- tabulator noun A tab character.
- tacit programming noun A programming paradigm in which function definitions do not identify the arguments (or "points") on which they operate. Instead, the…
- tactical noun A combinator of proof tactics.
- TAF noun Terminal Aerodrome Forecast: a specially encoded weather forecast for a terminal aerodrome
- tag verb To mark with a tag (metadata for classification).
- tag soup noun Poorly structured code in a markup language that uses tags (such as HTML), especially when it violates specifications.
- tagalong noun A pattern that attaches to the back of a spaceship, moving along with it.
- tagger noun A program or algorithm that adds tags for purposes of categorization, e.g. grammatical information to words in a document, or genres to…
- taglia noun A particular system of fixed and movable pulleys; a tackle with a set of sheaves in a fixed block and another set in a movable block to…
- tagline noun A pithy quotation habitually appended to a signature in email, newsgroups, etc.
- tail noun Synonym of pigtail (“a short length of twisted electrical wire”).