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 83 of 91: from “total loss” to “trigger”.
- total loss adj A system in which the working fluid is used once and then dumped, burned up, etc. rather than being recirculated. By extension, an…
- totalistic adj Having the state of each cell represented by a number, and the value of a cell dependent only on the sum of the values of nearby cells.
- touch verb To mark (a file or document) as having been modified.
- touch and go verb To perform a touch-and-go landing.
- touch down verb To land an aircraft or spacecraft.
- touch off verb To establish a reference coordinate or datum, by moving the tool head to just touch the workpiece or machine bed.
- touch screen noun An input and output device that allows the user to interact with the computer by touching the display screen.
- touch-tone dialing noun A system of telephone dialing in which each digit is transmitted as a tone or combination of tones of specific pitch.
- touchdown noun The moment when an aircraft or spacecraft makes first or final contact with the ground during a landing.
- touchpad noun A flat surface which is sensitive to touch, used mostly in laptop computers to control an on-screen cursor.
- tourist noun A guest user on a computer system.
- trace noun A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- trace scheduling noun An optimization technique for compilers that rearranges traces (instruction sequences) according to their frequency of execution, and…
- traceback noun Determination of origin; the process of tracing something back to its source.
- tracelet noun A short fragment of the trace of execution of a computer program, used in automated systems that attempt to understand and optimize source…
- tracer noun A process that traces something, such as the path of execution of a program during debugging.
- tracer ammunition noun Bullets or other projectiles which include a pyrotechnic component, allowing their path through the air to be seen.
- tracer round noun A type of ammunition that contains a pyrotechnic compound that ignites upon firing, creating a visible trail of light or smoke, allowing…
- traceroute noun The route taken by packets over an IP network.
- track verb To create music using tracker software.
- trackback noun A method to keep track of links to content, especially blog entries.
- tracker noun A type of computer software for composing music by aligning notes or samples on parallel timelines.
- tracking noun The synchronization of two or more signals.
- trackmo noun A demo that is loaded directly from the physical tracks of a floppy disk instead of loading through the file system.
- trackpoint noun An individual record within a GPS of a visited location.
- tractable adj Algorithmically solvable fast enough to be practically relevant, typically in polynomial time.
- tractive effort noun the tractive force that can be generated by a prime mover to pull a load; cardinal examples are a locomotive pulling a train, a…
- tractor noun An aeroplane where the propeller is located in front of the fuselage.
- traffic advisory noun A TCAS caution message alerting the pilot of an aircraft to the presence of nearby traffic which does not yet pose an imminent collision…
- traffic generator noun A destination that generates traffic, other than a populated place, such as a park, museum, or university.
- traffic light noun In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of four blinkers that are orthogonally equidistant from a central point.
- trailer noun The final record of a list of data items, often identified by a key field with an otherwise invalid value that sorts last alphabetically…
- train noun A software release schedule.
- training noun The process by which two modems determine which protocol and speed to use; handshaking.
- trajectory noun The path of a body as it travels through space.
- trammel noun An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a…
- trampoline verb To rewrite (computer code) to use trampoline instructions.
- transaction noun An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a…
- transaction time noun The time during which a fact stored in the database, represented by all the information in a row, is considered to be true and in effect.
- transactional memory noun A concurrency control mechanism analogous to database transactions for controlling access to shared memory.
- transactionality noun The degree to which a database or other system is transactional.
- transceiver noun A device that performs transmitting and receiving functions, especially if using common components.
- transclude verb To replace a template or other input with its rendered text, such as when parsing wikitext.
- transclusion noun The inclusion of part of one hypertext document in another one by means of reference rather than copying.
- transcompilation noun The translation of source code in one programming language into source code for another programming language.
- transcompiler noun A translating compiler that takes the source code of a programming language as its input and outputs the source code into either another…
- transcribe verb To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
- transcriber noun A device or program that transcribes data.
- transducer noun A state machine that generates output based on a given input.
- transfer window noun A period of time during which a spacecraft orbiting one celestial body can travel to a different body and enter orbit around it without…
- transform verb To subject to the action of a transformer.
- transformer noun A static device that transfers electric energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling; primarily used to transfer energy between…
- transient adj unsteady, non--steady-state]].
- transit lounge noun A waiting room at an (international) airport for passengers changing flights, or for long-haul passengers who have to leave their aircraft…
- transition noun A published procedure for instrument flight, coming between the departure and en-route phases of flight, or between en-route flight and an…
- transition altitude noun The altitude (which varies by country) above which an aircraft's barometric altimeters are set as if the sea-level atmospheric pressure…
- transition function noun A function from (state, input symbol) to state describing what state to move to on receiving a given input in a given state.
- transition level noun The lowest flight level above the transition altitude; depends on the transition altitude and the measured or calculated sea-level…
- transition time noun The amount of time required for the switch output to settle within a given percentage of the final value following a change in the control…
- transitive dependency noun An attribute of a relation that depends on a key but also on a third attribute which is not a key; this is a violation of third normal form.
- translator noun A machine that converts inputs into a pattern of holes on a punch card.
- transmiss verb To transmit.
- transmission fluid noun A specialized lubricant used in a vehicle to ensure the proper functioning of the transmission system.
- transmux verb Convert in realtime one telecommunications signal format to another, eg from SONET to DS3.
- transparency noun Sufficient accuracy to make the compressed result perceptually indistinguishable from the uncompressed input.
- transparent adj Having the property of transparency, i.e. sufficiently accurate that the compressed result is perceptually indistinguishable from the…
- transputer noun A single chip with CPU, memory and communications capability, used in grids to form parallel processing computers.
- transtainer noun A specialized container used to transport and protect large guided missiles.
- trap noun A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or…
- trapdoor verb To subvert (a cryptographic scheme) by means of a secret parameter that makes the trapdoor function easy to compute.
- trapdoor function noun A function that is easy to compute in one direction but difficult to compute in the opposite direction (finding its inverse) without…
- trash noun Temporary storage on disk for files that the user has deleted, allowing them to be recovered if necessary.
- trashbox noun An electronic folder for deleted electronic mail.
- traveller noun One of the wires connecting the two members of a pair of three-way switches.
- travelling-wave tube noun A type of vacuum tube which amplifies electromagnetic signals, where the electron gun fires down the tube with an unmodulated electron…
- traversable noun Any object that can be navigated by traversal.
- traverse verb To visit all parts of; to explore thoroughly.
- tray noun A notification area used for icons and alerts.
- treap noun A type of randomized binary search tree where nodes are labelled with randomly chosen priority values and which is simultaneously a heap on…
- tree noun A recursive data structure in which each node has zero or more nodes as children, but does not share children with other nodes.
- tree-and-branch adj Of cable television and similar networks: consisting of a main central cable with a separate cable branching off it to each subscriber.
- tree-maker noun A software program that constructs family trees.
- treebank noun A database (corpus) of sentences which are annotated with syntactic information, often in the form of a tree.
- treelist noun A user interface control that displays a list of items in an expandable hierarchy.
- trellis noun A kind of graph, used in communication theory and encryption, whose nodes are ordered into vertical slices by time, with each node at each…
- tremulate verb To tremble, quiver
- tri noun triangle
- triac noun A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.
- triad noun On a CRT display, a group of three neighbouring phosphor dots, coloured green, red, and blue.
- triage noun The process of prioritizing bugs to be fixed.
- trial noun A piece of ware used to test the heat of a kiln.
- trial balloon noun A small balloon released into the sky to determine the direction and tendency of winds in the upper air before a manned ascent in a larger…
- triangulate verb To divide into triangles.
- tribology noun The science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion; the study and application of technology using the principles of…
- tribotest noun A physical test of friction, lubrication, and wear.
- tribrid modeller noun A CAD system that is capable of modelling three-dimensional objects as combinations of surfaces, solids and polygons
- tricycle landing gear noun A common aircraft undercarriage design resembling a tricycle, with one or two wheels at the nose and two main wheels aft of the center of…
- trie noun An ordered tree data structure that is used to store an associative array where the keys are usually strings.
- trifocal adj Involving three foci.
- trigger noun A finger-operated lever used to fire a gun.