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 82 of 91: from “time and frequency transfer” to “total internal reflection”.
- time and frequency transfer noun A scheme where multiple sites share a precise reference time or frequency, commonly used for creating and distributing standard time scales…
- time bomb noun A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.
- time charter noun A contract securing the cargo space of a ship or aircraft for a fixed time period.
- time complexity noun The amount of time an algorithm requires to run, as a function of the amount of input, measured in such a way as to ignore constant terms…
- time diversity noun The process of sending the same signal or components of a signal through a communication channel where the same signal is received at…
- time division noun A time slot allocated to one of multiple users when a common channel (multipoint or broadcast) is shared.
- time elapsed counter noun A type of stopwatch or timer in a computer system that tracks the passage of time of a compiling, download, or other task.
- time fault noun A fault in the timing of an automated system.
- time front noun A locus of points that represents the maximum ground distance from a point of departure that can be covered by an aircraft in a prescribed…
- time hierarchy theorem noun A theorem that demonstrates that allowing Turing machines additional computation time strictly increases the class of languages that they…
- time history noun A technique used in the field of structural dynamics to evaluate the behavior of structures under different loads and conditions, involving…
- time lady noun A female voice that is heard on a speaking clock that a person could dial to find out the current time, down to the second, before the age…
- time of origin noun The point in time in which a message is released for transmission.
- time of useful consciousness noun The amount of time a person is able to function effectively in an environment of inadequate oxygen supply.
- time parameter noun A function used to specify the maximum CPU utilization time permitted for the job to execute.
- time reversal signal processing noun A technique that either creates an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructs a source event, or focuses on high-energy waves…
- time scale noun The ratio of the duration of time of an event as simulated by an analog computer to the actual duration of time of the event in the…
- time stop noun A stop (mechanical part that adjusts an aperture or interval size) which operates on a timer.
- time stretch analog-to-digital converter noun A device for digitizing analog signals of very high bandwidth, effectively slowing down the original signal in time (or compressing its…
- time switch noun A switch activated automatically at a preset time.
- time travel noun The ability to access previous states of a database.
- time travel debugging noun A form of software debugging allowing the user to step back and forward through the recorded prior execution of a program.
- time-aligned adj Of a sound system, in which the speakers are configured correctly to eliminate timing problems, so that the sound produced by each driver…
- time-assignment speech interpolation noun An analog technique used on certain long transmission links to increase voice transmission capacity.
- time-domain averaging noun A method for processing and analyzing signals, particularly when there is a requirement to reduce the impact of short-term fluctuations or…
- time-domain reflectometer noun An electronic instrument used to determine the characteristics of electrical lines by observing reflected pulses.
- time-domain reflectometry noun A technique used to track faults in networks, such as cable breaks or loose connections, in which a pulse of a known shape is transmitted…
- time-frequency analysis noun A technique that studies a signal in both the time and frequency domains simultaneously, using various time-frequency representations.
- time-hopping noun A communications signal technique in which the transmission time is varied according to a pseudorandom sequence, useful in antijamming, etc.
- time-loop logic noun A hypothetical system of computation that exploits the Novikov self-consistency principle to compute answers much faster than possible with…
- time-of-check to time-of-use noun A class of software bugs caused by a race condition involving the checking of the state of a part of a system, such as a security…
- time-of-use meter noun A device that measures and records the usage of electricity during a prespecified period of the day cumulatively over a meter reading…
- time-of-use rates noun A dynamic electric rate schedule that adjusts prices that are dependent on peak usage, as based on the time of day and season.
- time-serving noun The functionality of a timeserver.
- time-share verb To use (a computer or communications band) by time-sharing.
- time-sharing noun A technique that allows many users to use a central computer simultaneously through remote terminals.
- time-slicing noun A technique used to share a processor in a round robin manner with all of the tasks of the same priority, allowing lower priority tasks…
- time-space complexity noun The combination of the measure of the amount of time and space in which an algorithm requires to run or solve a given decision problem.
- time-varying adj Referring to any voltage of a varying time, current or an electromagnetic wave carrying information.
- timeserver noun A device, node or program that transmits the correct time to clients in a network.
- timestamp noun A variable containing the date and time at which an event occurred, often included in a log to track the sequence of events.
- timestomp verb To modify a timestamp (for example, the time when a file was accessed) so as to obfuscate the details of one's activity on a system.
- timewheel noun A circular array of items sorted by time.
- Titan crane noun A large crane with an overhanging counterbalanced arm carrying a traveler and lifting crab, the whole supported by a carriage mounted on…
- title bar noun The bar at the top of a window or a dialogue box displaying the name of the application or open document.
- title case noun The capitalization of text in which the first letter of each major (important) word is set as a capital.
- titlecase noun The variant of the letter that is used when this letter appears in the beginning of the sentence.
- tivoization noun The creation of a system that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but uses hardware to prevent users from…
- tivoize verb (of a hardware system) To use software under the terms of a copyleft software license, but at the same time to impose a hardware…
- TOAD attack noun Abbreviation for “telephone-oriented attack delivery attack”: a type of fraud where a criminal contacts someone by phone, text or email and…
- toast noun A transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- toast rack noun The ZX Spectrum 128k+ home computer, having a large heat sink built into the keyboard, shaped like a toast rack.
- toaster noun A low-end or outdated personal computer.
- toboggan verb To fly sharply downward so as to build up speed to facilitate in-flight refueling of a faster aircraft.
- toby box noun A box containing a service (fibre optic microducts, mains water, etc.) set into the street or verge for connection to a property, typically…
- toe noun The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.
- toeprint noun A very small footprint (amount of physical surface taken up by equipment).
- tofu noun A box or rectangle, empty or with a question mark or hexadecimal code inside, displayed by some systems in place of a character not…
- toggle switch noun A control resembling such a switch, allowing a setting to be enabled or disabled.
- toggle valve noun An implement that uses a directional toggle switch in order to control the flow of fluid in a piping system.
- Tokarev noun A Soviet service pistol, the TT-33 and TT-30
- token noun An atomic piece of data, such as a word, for which a meaning may be inferred during parsing.
- token bucket noun A fixed-capacity data structure to which tokens or packets are added at a fixed rate; used in algorithms to check whether sufficient tokens…
- token grabbing noun The act of using malware or social engineering to illicitly obtain an authentication token, specifically for services like Discord…
- token ring noun A network standard invented by IBM and later defined by the 802.5 subcommittee of the IEEE which provides for a network with a star ring…
- token-pasting operator noun The operator ## in the C or C++ preprocessor, which permits separate tokens to be joined into a single token.
- tokenize verb To reduce to a token or set of tokens by lexical analysis.
- Tom, Dick and Harry noun Three hypothetical customers, user personas, or similar constructs.
- tombstone noun A marker that takes the place of deleted data, allowing for replication of the deletion across servers etc.
- tombstone engineering noun The practice of letting accidents or failures (perhaps occasioning death, but not necessarily) identify engineering problems.
- tombstoning noun The process of (automatically) initiating software sleep mode on an app.
- tommy bar noun A short bar put through the hole in a socket spanner or box spanner to provide leverage.
- tone dialing noun A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a burst of a single audio frequency.
- tone mapping noun The technique of mapping one set of colors to another, to approximate the appearance of a higher dynamic range than is actually available.
- tool noun A piece of software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations.
- toolbar noun A row of buttons, usually marked with icons, used to activate the functions of an application or operating system.
- toolbox noun A set of pre-existing routines for use in writing new programs.
- toolchain noun A set of tools for software development, often used in sequence so that the output of one tool comprises the input of the next.
- toolkit noun A set of software tools or components.
- toolpath noun The path through space that the tip of a cutting tool follows on its way to producing the desired geometry of the workpiece.
- toolset noun A set of utility programs, subroutines or similar software.
- toolsmith noun a person who creates utility programs
- toolstack noun A collection of software tools to work on different parts of a related system, often used on information technology infrastructure…
- toolsuite noun A set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.
- tooltip noun An element of a graphical user interface in the form of a box of text that appears when a cursor is made to hover over an item; normally…
- top dead center noun A position in the cycle of a piston engine wherein the piston is at the topmost point in its stroke. In a four-stroke cycle, TDC occurs…
- top rake noun The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.
- top-level noun read-eval-print loop
- top-level domain noun The last component of a domain name, such as .com, .edu, .gov, .net, .org, .mil, .mobi or any of the newer generic top-level domains, or…
- topic noun A component similar to a message queue which supports multiple subscribers.
- topological sort noun An ordering of the vertices of a directed graph such that if an edge goes from vertex u to vertex v then u precedes v in the ordering.
- topology noun The arrangement of nodes in a communications network.
- topos noun A category that behaves like the category of sheaves of sets on a topological space (or, more generally, on a site).
- torchship noun A spacecraft whose propulsion system has both very high thrust and very high specific impulse.
- torn write noun A write operation, such as to a hard disk drive or database, which only partially completes, being cut off midway through.
- torque noun A rotational or twisting effect of a force; a moment of force, defined for measurement purposes as an equivalent straight line force…
- torque converter noun A device that converts the rotational output of a prime mover into work by driving a rotational load. A torque converter functions as a…
- torsion noun That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted…
- tosser noun A program that forwards or redirects messages on a bulletin board system.
- total internal reflection noun A phenomenon where light, instead of passing into a medium of a lower refractive index and refracting away from the normal, is completely…