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 81 of 91: from “tertiate” to “time alignment”.
- tertiate verb To examine, as the thickness of the metal at the muzzle of a gun; or, in general, to examine the thickness of, as ordnance, in order to…
- terzetta noun An old Italian flintlock pistol.
- test case noun Any of a set of conditions and variables used to test an application.
- test double noun An object or procedure that looks and behaves like its release-intended counterpart, but is actually a simplified version to reduce…
- test suite noun A container that has a set of tests with similar test cases to show that it has some specified set of behaviours.
- test-driven development noun A software development process that relies on the repetition of a minimal development cycle where the developer writes an (initially…
- tet adj Tetrahedral.
- tethered adj connected (especially a mobile phone to a computer, for use as a wireless modem)
- tetherless adj wireless; pertaining to a wireless network
- tetradecimal adj Based on the number 14; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C and D.
- tetrasexagesimal noun The Base64 text encoding scheme.
- texel noun An image representing the smallest unit of a texture that may be repeated to tile a region of the display.
- text noun Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text.
- text box noun A rectangular widget that accepts textual input on an interactive electronic display.
- text editor noun A program which allows a user to edit the contents of a text file, usually in an interactive way with immediate visual feedback.
- text file noun A datafile containing only plain, human-readable text, distinct from documents with embedded formatting.
- text hooker noun Software that reads text from other software that is being executed, often for the purpose of replacing the text with its translation in…
- text simplification noun An operation used in natural language processing to modify, enhance, classify or otherwise process an existing corpus of human-readable…
- texture noun An image applied to a polygon to create the appearance of a surface.
- texture map noun A matrix of data, representing texture, added to a polygon or polyhedron in the process of texture mapping
- texturize verb To apply a visual texture to.
- texturizer noun A program or process that applies a visual texture.
- Thach weave noun A tactic in aerial combat of the World War II era, where two aircraft on patrol fly a parallel course, and if attacked, overlap their…
- theme verb To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software).
- themer noun One who develops a visual theme for software.
- theology noun Subjective marginal details.
- thermal analysis noun Any of several analytical techniques that monitor the chemical and physical changes that occur as a material is heated.
- thermal design power noun The maximum amount of heat generated by a computer chip or component which the cooling system in a computer is designed to dissipate under…
- thermal energy noun A form of energy; sensible energy; heat
- thermal horsepower noun The horsepower of an electric motor, determined by the readings from a thermal-type ammeter.
- thermic siphon noun A heat-exchanging element in the firebox or combustion chamber of some steam boiler and steam locomotive designs, directly exposed to the…
- thermistor noun A resistor whose resistance varies rapidly and predictably with temperature and as a result can be used to measure temperature.
- thermobaric weapon noun A weapon of a class of bombs, which causes a large explosion, with effects similar to a nuclear blast, by having an explosion, flash of…
- thermopile noun An electronic device that converts thermal energy into electrical energy. Usually constructed using a series-combination of thermocouples
- thesaurus noun A hierarchy of subject headings: canonical titles of themes and topics, the titles serving as search keys.
- thesis noun A conjecture, especially one too vague to be formally stated or verified but useful as a working convention.
- theta noun Pitch angle; the angle between an aircraft's longitudinal axis and the horizontal plane.
- thicket noun The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation…
- thimble noun A socket in machinery shaped like a thimble.
- thimbled adj Of a cable or rope, or a piece of machinery or other device: having a thimble (“ring-, thimble-, or tube-shaped component”).
- thin adj Of a route: relatively little used.
- thin film adj (of a circuit, electronic, etc.) Made with thin films deposited on a ceramic or glass substrate.
- thin-film interference noun The interference of light caused by its reflection from both boundaries of a thin film of a transparent material.
- third angle projection noun A method of technical drawing where the front view of the object is placed in the third quadrant, the side view is to the right, and the…
- third normal form noun A stage in the normalization of a relational database in which a database is in second normal form and all non-key attributes are mutually…
- third party adj Of products, created or published by an independent publisher or manufacturer or its internal development teams, as opposed to first-party…
- third-class object noun An entity of which the value can neither be passed as a parameter, nor be returned from a function, nor assigned to a variable. (According…
- thirty-thirty noun A thirty calibre firearm designed for cartridges that originally held thirty grains of smokeless powder.
- Thompson noun Ellipsis of Thompson submachine gun (“Tommy gun”).
- Thor's hammer noun An orbital drop hypervelocity kinetic energy weapon (KEW). A theoretical weapon, originating from a U.S. government study, Project Thor…
- thrash verb To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
- thrashing noun Excessive paging within virtual storage.
- thread noun A screw thread.
- thread count noun The total number of threads that a single processor core can run simultaneously.
- threadable adj Suitable for multithreading.
- threaded adj Of messages: arranged in a thread or threads.
- threading noun A screw thread.
- three-pointer noun A three-point landing; an airplane landing in which all three wheels touch the ground simultaneously.
- three-way switch noun A type of light switch that can be arranged in pairs to control lights from two locations, as at either end of a stairway or long hallway…
- threshold noun The start of the landing area of a runway.
- thrill verb To drill and thread in one operation, using a tool bit that cuts the hole and the threads in one series of computer-controlled movements.
- throbber noun A widget consisting of a static image that animates during execution of a task.
- throttle body noun A part of the air intake system of a fuel injected engine, responsible for regulating the airflow into the engine.
- through-hole technology noun Mounting scheme used for electronic components that involves the use of leads on the components that are inserted into holes drilled in…
- throughput noun The rate at which data is transferred through a system.
- throw verb To make (a pot) by shaping clay as it turns on a wheel.
- throwable adj Capable of being thrown in the manner of an exception.
- throwaway ticketing noun The purchase of a ticket with the intent to use only a portion of the included travel, in order to save on airfare.
- throwbot noun A small, throwable robotic device, typically used by military and law enforcement for reconnaissance and situational awareness.
- thrust bucket noun A reduction in thrust performed by some launch vehicles when approaching max Q, in order to reduce aerodynamic stresses on the vehicle's…
- thrust reverser noun A feature of modern aircraft that diverts the exhaust of the aircraft engines forward to function as a brake.
- thrust vectoring noun The deflection of the exhaust nozzle(s) of a jet engine or rocket so as to alter the direction in which the engine produces thrust and help…
- thumb noun The part of a slider that may be moved linearly along the slider.
- thumbnail verb To create a smaller representation of (a larger image).
- thumbnut noun A nut with a knurled rim which can be turned with thumb and forefinger.
- thumbshot noun A thumbnail snapshot of an electronic document.
- Thunderbolt chassis noun An electronics chassis, physically external to a host system, that provides a means to connect PCI Express cards to that host using the…
- thundering herd noun The undesirable situation where a large number of processes waiting for an event are awoken whenever the event occurs, and then engage in a…
- thunk noun A delayed computation.
- tick noun A jiffy (unit of time defined by basic timer frequency).
- tickable adj Of a program instruction: counted for the purpose of generating periodic signals every few instructions.
- ticket point mileage noun An officially stated distance between two cities, used in airline fare calculations regardless of the airports used
- ticket time limit noun The date and time by which a ticket must be issued for a reservation to avoid cancellation of the booking and/or expiration of the fare…
- ticketer noun a person responsible for ticket issue.
- tickless adj Having interrupts occur only when required, rather than at regular intervals.
- tie verb In the Perl programming language, to extend (a variable) so that standard operations performed upon it invoke custom functionality instead.
- tier verb To move (data) from one storage medium to another as an optimization, based on how frequently it is accessed.
- tiff noun An image stored in the TIFF format.
- tige noun A steel pin in early rifles.
- tight loop noun A loop which contains few instructions and iterates many times.
- tile noun A rectangular graphic.
- tilemap noun A two-dimensional grid made up of rectangular tiles of equal size, each of which can display an image.
- tiling noun A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.
- tiller noun A steering wheel, usually mounted on the lower portion of the captain's control column, which is used to steer the aircraft's nosewheel or…
- tilt-shift noun The blurring of parts of a photograph or video so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model.
- TIM noun Initialism of time interval meter.
- timber noun The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
- time after bit noun The time that has passed between a bit first penetrating a rock formation and a log then being recorded opposite the formation.
- time algorithm noun An algorithm which specifies the amount of time required to solve a problem as a function of its input size.
- time alignment noun The process of delaying the sound emanating from one or more drivers in a loudspeaker or sound system to correct the transient response so…