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 89 of 91: from “w-shingling” to “white label”.
- w-shingling noun In natural language processing, a set of unique "shingles" (contiguous subsequences of tokens in a document) that can be used to gauge the…
- wabbit noun A self-replicating computer process that (unlike a virus or worm) does not infect host programs or documents and remains on the local…
- Wabun code noun A form of Morse code used to encode Japanese-language messages written in kana for transmission via telegram.
- wadcutter noun a special-purpose bullet designed for shooting paper targets, usually at close range and at subsonic velocities.
- wafer noun A thin disk of silicon or other semiconductor on which an electronic circuit is produced.
- wafer-scale integration noun A rarely-used system of building very large integrated circuit networks that use an entire silicon wafer to produce a single "super-chip".
- waffle verb Of an aircraft or motor vehicle: to travel in a slow and unhurried manner.
- wait noun Ellipsis of wait state.
- wait state noun Any of several instances in which a computer's processor cannot execute instructions (either for the entire computer, or just for a…
- wait-free adj Involving no busy-wait loops or locks for synchronizing with other threads. Able to act immediately without waiting on others.
- waitable adj Implementing a wait/notify functionality.
- wake noun The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
- wake turbulence noun The disturbances formed in the atmosphere behind an aircraft passing through the air, consisting primarily of a combination of wake…
- wake vortex noun One of the paired vortices formed behind any heavier-than-air aircraft when producing lift, created by the velocity differential between…
- wake word noun A word or phrase that activates a dormant device when spoken by the user.
- wake-sleep algorithm noun A certain unsupervised learning algorithm for neural networks, having separate "wake" and "sleep" phases that attempt to connect the layers…
- wakelock noun A lock that can be acquired by software for the purpose of preventing the mobile device from going into a locked standby state during a…
- waker noun In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.
- walk verb To operate the left and right throttles of (an aircraft) in alternation.
- walk-up noun An informal visit to a control tower by a pilot, typically used as part of pilot training.
- walking skeleton noun An initial, bare-bones implementation of a system or application which provides only the basic core functionality, in order to be able to…
- walkthrough noun The process of inspecting algorithms and source code by following paths through the algorithms or code as determined by input conditions…
- wall clock noun The measure of wall time, the actual amount of time taken from the start to the end of an operation.
- wall time noun The actual time of day, as would be seen on a wall clock; contrasted with the (possibly inaccurate) time according to a computer system.
- walled garden noun A closed platform for content or services controlled by a single carrier or service provider, typically requiring subscription to access.
- wallet noun An e-wallet or digital wallet.
- wallower noun A lantern wheel; a trundle.
- wallpaper noun An image or tiled pattern used as the background of a computer desktop.
- wardialer noun A program that dials every telephone number in a particular area searching for computers, or trying to guess passwords.
- warm verb To prepopulate (a cache) so that its contents are ready for other users.
- warm up verb Synonym of warm (“prepopulate a cache”).
- warm working noun The process of processing a metal at a temperature between one-tenth and four-tenths of the melting point
- wart noun Any of the prefixes used in Hungarian notation.
- WASD noun A set of four keys on a keyboard used as directions to control player characters in certain video games. (W, A, S and D represent up, left…
- washout noun The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.
- wastegate noun A valve that allows exhaust gases to bypass an engine's turbocharger, in order to keep from overspeeding the turbocharger rotor or driving…
- watchdog verb To be continuously reset by a watchdog timer.
- watchdog timer noun An electronic or software timer used to detect and recover from computer malfunctions by generating a timeout signal if it is not…
- watchpoint noun A debugging mechanism whereby execution is suspended every time a specified memory location is modified; or, any of various similar such…
- water core noun A hollow core through which water may be passed.
- water injection noun The process of squirting a small amount of water, in the form of a fine spray, into the air/fuel mixture going into a gasoline piston…
- water meadow noun An area of grassland subject to controlled irrigation or flooding in order to increase agricultural productivity.
- waterfall noun Short for waterfall model
- waterfall model noun A sequential software development process in which development is seen as flowing steadily downwards (like a waterfall) through the phases…
- waterfalling noun Turbulent flow, or the damage caused by such turbulence (such as spalling).
- waterfilling noun The situation where each channel in a communication network is amplified to a sufficient level to compensate for impairments.
- watering hole attack noun A computer attack strategy, in which the victim is a particular group (organization, industry, or region), and the attacker guesses or…
- waterline noun A horizontal line indicating the shape of an airfoil.
- watermark noun A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match…
- wave off verb Of an aircraft carrier landing signal officer, to signal a pilot to go around.
- wave processing noun The act or technique of modifying the properties of a wave or/and translating it from one environment to the other. It is usually preceded…
- waveform noun The shape of a physical wave, such as sound, electric current or electromagnetic radiation, or its representation obtained by plotting a…
- wavelet matrix noun A type of data structure that represents a sequence of or the process of sorting elements while allowing query operations.
- waverider noun A hypersonic aircraft that improves its supersonic lift-to-drag ratio by using the shock waves generated by its own flight as a lifting…
- weak typing noun A system that does not place any restriction on the interactions between objects of different data types.
- weakly-typed adj Belonging to a type system that likely will not result in an error if a passed variable does not closely match the expected type.
- wear leveling noun A technique for extending the service life of some kinds of erasable storage media, such as flash memory, by arranging data so that…
- wearable noun Ellipsis of wearable computer (“small computer which can be worn on the body”).
- web application noun A software application that is accessed via a web browser, often over a network but sometimes offline.
- web content noun Elements making up a web page as delivered to the client, including text, images, hyperlinks, audio and video content; may be generated…
- web installer noun A single-executable stub installer for a program that downloads the full installer from the Internet on runtime. It may use heuristics to…
- web of trust noun A decentralized cryptographic mechanism for establishing the authenticity of the binding between a public key and its owner.
- Web Ontology Language noun A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web
- web server noun software that delivers Web pages and other documents to browsers using the HTTP protocol.
- webbook noun Any of several portable computers (or similar) that have access to the Internet and are primarily used to read such books.
- webcam noun A video camera whose output may be viewed in real time over a computer network, originally the World Wide Web.
- websafe adj Of colours used in the design of a web page: not liable to be dithered on any system, thus appearing the same to all visitors to the…
- webtop noun Integration of desktop office-productivity applications with Web-based information and application delivery.
- wedge verb Of a computer program or system: to get stuck in an unresponsive state.
- wedge gear noun A specialized friction gear characterized by circumferential grooves of wedge-shaped cross section on its wheel periphery.
- wedged adj Stuck; incapable of proceeding without help, though not having crashed.
- weight noun Viscosity rating.
- weightmap noun A set of vertex attributes controlling deformation of a three-dimensional model during skeletal animation.
- well noun The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.
- well-formed adj Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.
- well-known adj Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.
- well-pointed adj Said of a category or topos: that it has a terminal object (or that it has no zero object, if it is a topos) and in which any distinct pair…
- well-served adj (of a gun, artillery, etc.) Operated well.
- wet adj Using afterburners or water injection for increased engine thrust.
- wet heater noun A torpedo engine where water is injected into the combustion chamber alongside fuel and compressed air or oxygen, cooling the engine and…
- wet lease noun An agreement in which an airplane, including crew, maintenance and insurance, is leased to another organisation, usually for a short period…
- wet-leasing noun The leasing of an airplane including crew, maintenance and insurance to another organisation, usually for a short period of time.
- wetted area noun The total surface area of an aircraft.
- Weyl fermion noun A massless quasiparticle and fermion, which carries electric charge, and cannot move backwards, that may exist in Weyl semimetals, where an…
- whack noun The backslash, ⟨ \ ⟩.
- whaling noun A form of highly personalized cyberattack that targets a senior business executive.
- wharfing noun A technique of facing seawalls and embankments with planks driven as piles and secured by ties.
- what you see is what you get phrase The screen image resembles the printed output.
- wheel noun A superuser on certain systems.
- wheel war noun A conflict in which users of a given computer system or (later) wiki who have administrative privileges try to lock each other out of the…
- wheelbarrow verb To cause the weight of an aeroplane to become concentrated around the nosewheel.
- wheelbarrowing noun The loss of control caused by excessive forward pressure on the elevator control of an aeroplane with a nosewheel during takeoff or landing.
- wheellock noun An early type of firearm, using a spring-driven wheel against a flint to make sparks in the firing pan.
- whetstone noun Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).
- whetted adj (of a surface) exposed to a working fluid.
- while loop noun A section of computer code in which an instruction or group of instructions is repeated only while a certain condition continues to be met.
- whisker noun A small tendril that forms on metal.
- whiskering noun The act of composing a natural transformation and a functor to produce another natural transformation.
- white hat noun A well-meaning hacker who hacks for a good cause or to aid a company, organization, or government without causing harm (for example, to…
- white label adj Unbranded; being a brand name product which has had a white label applied to remove branding so that it can be resold for cheaper without…