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 84 of 91: from “trigram” to “two's complement”.
- trigram noun An n-gram consisting of three items from a sequence.
- trigraph noun A three-character sequence used to enter a single conceptual character.
- trijet noun An aircraft powered by three jet engines.
- trim verb To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch…
- trim tab noun A control surface set within or attached to a larger control surface that provides trim to obtain a desired attitude without constant…
- trimmer noun An adjustable electrical component.
- triode noun A thermionic valve containing an anode, a cathode, and a control grid; small changes to the charge on the grid control the flow from…
- trip noun A mechanical cutout device.
- trip out verb To pull the drill stem and bit out of the hole of an oil well drill, in order to access the borehole.
- trip switch noun A device to halt the current flow, a cut-out or trip.
- tripe noun Synonym of Tripehound (“Sopwith Triplane”).
- triplane noun An airplane that has three pairs of wings, one above the others
- triple noun A sequence of three elements or 3-tuple.
- triple A noun Synonym of AAA (“anti-aircraft artillery”).
- triple fault noun An exception thrown by the CPU while trying to handle a double fault, typically resulting in immediate rebooting.
- triple-click noun The action of pushing the button on a mouse three times in quick succession in order to perform a different task that would be performed…
- tripler noun The simplest form of frequency multiplier, that has an output frequency of three times the value of the input frequency.
- triplestore noun A database designed for the storage and retrieval of RDF (Resource Description Framework) metadata in the form of triples representing…
- trirotor adj Having three rotors; having three main rotors.
- tristate noun A variable, etc. that can take any of three distinct values.
- tristated adj In a high-impedance state that is neither the high output state nor the low output state, and allows other devices to drive the bus without…
- trit noun The ternary equivalent of a bit; a fundamental unit of information that may take any of three distinct states.
- trixel noun A triangle assigned a single color based on the colors of the pixels inside it, used in medical imaging systems.
- troglodyte noun A person who chooses not to keep up to date with the latest software and hardware.
- trojan noun Malware that appears to perform or actually performs a desired task for a user while performing a harmful task without the user's knowledge…
- troll plate noun A rotary disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, such as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.
- trombone verb To transmit a signal or data back to a central switching point before sending it out to its destination.
- troubleshooter noun A software program or routine that attempts to diagnose a problem with the system.
- truck beam noun A fore-and-aft horizontal beam at the lower end of the gear strut of a multi-axle landing gear bogie, upon which are mounted the multiple…
- truck roll noun The dispatching of service personnel to a client's location (as opposed to remotely addressing an issue)
- true adj one of two states of a Boolean variable; logic 1.
- true strain noun A dimensionless measure of object deformation; the natural logarithm of the ratio of the object's deformed length to its initial length…
- truel noun A duel fought between three people.
- trundle noun A lantern wheel, or one of its bars.
- trunk verb To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
- trunk piston noun In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod…
- trunnion noun One of the short stubby bearings on either side of a cannon; a pintle.
- trussing noun The timbers, etc., that form a truss.
- trust noun Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.
- trustless adj Which does not need any trust, or a trusted third party.
- truthiness noun The property of being truthy, i.e. evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- truthy adj Evaluating to true in a Boolean context.
- try noun A block of code that may trigger exceptions the programmer expects to catch, usually demarcated by the keyword try.
- try-miter square noun A joinery tool that can be used as a standard 90 degree try square and also as a 45 degree miter square.
- try-off noun A test for clearance, bearings, and metal thickness of a mold.
- TTY noun A command line interface or terminal emulator.
- tub file noun A technique used to speed the generation of datafiles on a punch card, involving multiple copies of frequently used cards that were…
- tuck verb Ellipsis of Mach tuck.
- tuggie noun The pilot who tows a glider.
- tumble motor noun A small rocket motor mounted to a rocket stage, which fires following staging in order to cause the discarded stage to tumble and prevent…
- tunable noun A setting that can be configured.
- tuned mass damper noun A device mounted in a structure in order to reduce mechanical vibrations, consisting of a mass mounted on one or more damped springs.
- tuning noun The adjustment of a system or circuit to secure optimum performance.
- tunnel verb To transmit something through a tunnel (wrapper for an insecure or unsupported protocol).
- tunneling noun A feature of the file system that allows files to preserve certain properties, such as creation date, even after being deleted and…
- tuple noun A single row in a relational database.
- turbo adj Causing or relating to increased speed.
- turbofan noun A turbojet engine having a (usually ducted) fan that drives a stream of air that partly bypasses the turbojet portion; in high-bypass-ratio…
- turbofish noun A syntactic element in Rust, ::<>, with arguments between < and >, that specifies the generic arguments of a function in an expression.
- turbojet noun A jet engine that develops thrust solely from high-speed exhaust gases expelled from a turbine that drives a compressor.
- turboload noun A software mechanism that loads data from cassette tape more rapidly than usual, saving time and making software piracy more difficult.
- turboprop noun A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
- turbosupercharger noun A turbocharger, an exhaust-powered turbine used to power increased air intake to an internal combustion engine; an exhaust-turbine powered…
- turbulence noun Specifically, a state of agitation or disturbance in the air which is disruptive to an aircraft.
- Turing degree noun A measure of the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the decision problem of whether a given set of natural numbers contains any given…
- Turing jump noun In computability theory, an operation that assigns to each decision problem X a successively harder decision problem X′ with the property…
- Turing machine noun An abstract computing machine that has a finite number of possible internal states and operates on an infinite memory tape by first reading…
- Turing reduction noun A reduction that solves a problem if the solution to another problem is already known, i.e. an algorithm that could be used to solve A if…
- Turing switch noun A logical construction modelling the operation of the network switch, just as in theoretical computer science a Turing machine models the…
- Turing tape noun The infinitely long memory tape on which a Turing machine would operate, consisting of individual cells that can be read or written.
- Turing tarpit noun The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".
- Turingery noun A manual cryptanalysis technique used in breaking the Lorenz cipher during World War II, based on deducing the wheel settings of the…
- turmite noun A two-dimensional variant of a Turing machine in which the head has an orientation in addition to a position and state.
- turn-by-turn navigation noun A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation…
- turn-off time noun The amount of time between the moment the anode current reaches zero and the moment the reverse voltage due to the practical circuit…
- turn-on time noun The amount of time required for a device to change from a forward blocking mode to a forward conduction mode when a gate pulse is applied.
- turnaround noun Preparations for takeoff, such as loading and servicing.
- turndown noun The operational range of a device.
- turned on adj That has been switched on or placed in the on position.
- turning tool noun A cutting tool for turning (cutting external diameters and faces) as opposed to boring (cutting internal diameters and faces); especially…
- turret noun A tower-like solder post on a turret board (a circuit board with posts instead of holes).
- turtle noun A type of robot having a domed case (and so resembling the reptile), used in education, especially for making line drawings by means of a…
- turtle graphics noun Vector graphics generated by a turtle that moves according to relative coordinates on a Cartesian plane, as in the Logo programming…
- Tutania noun An alloy of copper, antimony, zinc and tin patented in 1770 by William Tutin, whose firm used it in commercial production of housewares.
- tutorial noun A video or text guide or instruction about a specific topic (generally a how-to).
- tweak verb From a catapult, to strike a target with a missile.
- tweak freak noun A person who modifies software or hardware in order to enhance its performance beyond their normal and acceptable standards.
- tweakable adj Of a block cipher: accepting a second input (the "tweak"), used in conjunction with the key to select the permutation computed by the…
- tweener noun A computing device that is smaller than a traditional laptop, but larger than a PDA.
- tweeter noun An electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound.
- twiddle verb To flip or switch two adjacent bits (binary digits).
- twin noun A two-engine aircraft.
- twinjet noun An aircraft powered by two jet engines.
- twist morphism noun An isomorphism between a pair of products which have the same components but in swapped order, which isomorphism commutes with the two…
- twistie noun Alternative form of twisty.
- twisty noun A collapsible element having a marker such as a small triangle that rotates between horizontal and vertical positions to indicate whether…
- twit verb To ignore or kill file (a user on a bulletin board system).
- twitter noun Unwanted flicker that occurs in interlaced displays when the image contains vertical detail that approaches the horizontal resolution of…
- two seconds to black noun The situation where a computer monitor displays a correct screen image when first switched on, but then quickly blanks out, typically…
- two's complement noun The number obtained by complementing every bit of a given number and adding one. A number and its complement add to 2ⁿ, where n is the word…