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 86 of 91: from “unencrypted” to “untrammed”.
- unencrypted adj Of something that has been decrypted successfully, or of something that should have been encrypted, but was not.
- unfeather verb To disengage the controls that rotate the blades of a propeller perpendicular to the axis of the propeller.
- unfielded adj Of data: not organised in a set of fields.
- unfilter noun The lack or absence of a filter
- unfired adj not baked in a kiln
- unfocus verb To move the input focus away from.
- unfold noun In functional programming, a kind of higher-order function that is the opposite of a fold.
- unformatted adj That has not yet been formatted for use; uninitialized
- unfreeze verb To release from a previously locked or frozen state.
- unghost verb To restore from a ghosted state.
- ungolfed adj Not having been written in short form according to the challenge of code golf.
- unground verb To remove a connection to ground potential.
- ungrounded adj Not connected to ground potential
- unhandled adj Not having an associated handler routine.
- unhold verb To remove from a "hold" or "on hold" state.
- unicast adj Being the transmission of messages to a single destination host on a packet switching network.
- Unicode noun Characters from a contextually different script, often used in a nonstandard fashion. Sometimes used as an antonym to the characters of the…
- unicom noun An air-ground communication facility operated by a private agency (not air traffic control) to provide advice at uncontrolled aerodromes…
- unification noun An algorithmic process of solving equations between symbolic expressions.
- uniform noun In OpenGL, a global shader variable whose value does not change between rendering calls, serving as a parameter.
- unilateralization noun neutralization.
- uninstall verb To completely remove hardware or software from a computer system.
- uninstantiate verb To destroy or annul (an instance of something); to eliminate (a variable, object, etc.) that was created earlier.
- uninstantiation noun The process of uninstantiating; destruction of an instance.
- uninterruptible power supply noun A device or system that almost instantaneously provides emergency power in the case that main power fails.
- union noun A data structure that can store any of various types of item, but only one at a time.
- unique identifier noun Any identifier that is guaranteed to be unique among all others used for objects and for a specific purpose.
- unique key noun A set of one or more than one columns or fields of a table that uniquely identifies a record in a database table.
- uniquification noun The act of uniquifying.
- uniquify verb To eliminate duplicates from a list, especially when using the *nix command/function uniq.
- unit noun A basic, self-contained component or module that performs a specific function inside a computer system.
- unit interval noun symbol duration time.
- unit record noun A single unit of input or output, as a punch card or line of printout.
- unit test noun An individual test in unit testing
- unit testing noun A software testing methodology in which individual tests (unit tests) are developed for each small part of a program.
- universal morphism noun The terminal object of a comma category from a functor to a fixed object; or, dually, the initial object of a comma category from a fixed…
- Universal Serial Bus noun An international standard for interconnecting personal computer devices using simple plugs and sockets and lightweight cables.
- Unix noun Any of the above plus Unix-like operating systems similar to Unix but not qualifying for use of the UNIX trademark.
- Unix time noun A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on…
- Unix weenie noun A Unix system manager.
- unix-like adj Behaving similarly to Unix. Often used to describe systems which do not qualify for use of the Unix trademark.
- Unixoid adj Characteristic or reminiscent of Unix operating systems.
- unkeyed adj Without a key.
- unlimited register machine noun A particular type of theoretical computer, with infinitely many memory cells, called registers, and formal rules to determine the machine's…
- unlink verb To delete (a file).
- unload verb To remove (something previously loaded) from memory.
- unlock verb To configure (a mobile phone) so that it is not bound to any particular carrier.
- unlocked adj Not bound to any particular carrier.
- unlogged adj Not logged in.
- unlooper noun A device used to break a smart card's microcontroller out of an infinite loop state that makes it otherwise unusable.
- unmanaged code noun source code that is compiled into native code for execution, rather than executing only under Microsoft's Common Language Runtime.
- unmask verb To enable (an interrupt, etc.) by unsetting or setting the associated bit.
- unmigrate verb To reverse the process of migration; to switch back to an older system.
- unmount verb To reverse a mount operation; to instruct the operating system that the file system should be disassociated from its mount point, making it…
- unnoble adj Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
- unpack verb To decompress (data).
- unpacker noun A software program that decompresses code or data.
- unpaged adj Not subject to paging.
- unpark verb To release from the fixed position adopted when not in use.
- unpatched adj For which a patch is not yet available.
- unpin verb To detach (an icon, application, etc.) from the place where it was previously pinned.
- unpiped adj Not redirected by means of a pipe.
- unport verb To flow away from, and, thus, fail to enter, its intake or drain port.
- unported adj Not having been ported, or converted to another platform.
- unqualified hostname noun The portion of a computer's Internet domain name that comes before the first period, and so is sufficient to uniquely identify the computer…
- unquote verb To convert (a quoted expression) back to its original form.
- unreachable code noun Code that can never be reached during program execution because no part of the program calls it or branches to it.
- unread noun An unread email or instant message.
- unreal mode noun A variant of real mode, in which one or more segment descriptors have been loaded with nonstandard values, like 32-bit limits allowing…
- unreserve verb To undo or cancel a reservation.
- unroll verb To replace (a loop in a program) with a repetitive sequence of the individual instructions that the loop would carry out, sometimes used as…
- unrotate verb To undo a rotation.
- unsalted adj Without a cryptographic salt.
- unsaved adj Not saved (stored in a file).
- unscale verb To undo a scaling transform upon.
- unsearchable adj Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.
- unseat verb To come off or out of a seat.
- unselect verb To cancel a previous selection, especially by removing a mark from a tick box.
- unshade verb To restore a window from its shaded (collapsed) state.
- unshadow verb To combine (a password file) with its corresponding "shadow file" in order to facilitate cracking of the passwords.
- unsharp adj Out of focus; blurry.
- unsharpen verb To undo a sharpening operation on (an image).
- unshift verb To add an item to the beginning of an array.
- unsight verb To lose sight on a target
- unsighted adj Not furnished with a sight.
- unsigned adj Not accepting negative numbers; having only a positive value (or zero).
- unsmelted adj Not smelted; not having been subjected to a smelting process; still in the state of being an unrefined ore.
- unsort verb To shuffle a data structure so that it is no longer sorted.
- unspeakable adj That cannot be referenced in source code, due to having no usable name.
- unspool verb To reduce the thrust of a jet engine to idle in flight.
- unstage verb To move (a file) out of the staging area (where files are kept in preparation to be committed and deployed).
- unstick verb To leave the ground during takeoff.
- unstring verb To split (a text string) into smaller strings by separating on a delimiter.
- unstuff verb To decompress (a compressed archive in the StuffIt format).
- unswitched adj Directly connected without an intervening switch.
- untaint verb To mark (a previously tainted variable) as safe.
- untemper verb To deprive of temper
- untie verb In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
- untrace verb To remove a trace from.
- untrammed adj Not trammed; unaligned.