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 9 of 91: from “blacklist” to “bookkeeping”.
- blacklist noun A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned, disallowed or blocked.
- blade noun Ellipsis of blade server.
- blade server noun A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.
- blame noun A source control feature that can show which user was responsible for a particular portion of the source code.
- blank verb To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
- blanking noun A metalworking process to form the rough shape of a sheet-metal workpiece.
- blast furnace noun An industrial furnace in which ore is smelted to metal, the process being intensified by a blast of hot air.
- blast pen noun A specially constructed E-shaped double bay to protect aircraft against bomb blasts and splinters during enemy attacks.
- blasting cap noun A small, metal tube or shell containing a detonating charge and is used to initiate the detonation of other explosives.
- blastpipe noun A pipe forming part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders up into the smokebox…
- blaze away verb To fire (firearms) repeatedly.
- bleed noun A system for tapping hot, high-pressure air from a gas turbine engine for purposes such as cabin pressurization and airframe anti-icing.
- bleed air noun Compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine upstream of its fuel-burning sections.
- bleed hole noun A small, purposeful opening found in objects (e.g. glass panes, metal plates, airplane windows, etc.) to equalise air pressure and prevent…
- bleeding edge adj Of or pertaining to something, such as technology, which is too new and untested to be reliable or to have any assurance of safety; (in a…
- bleep censor noun A software module, manually operated by a broadcast technician, putting a five-second broadcast delay on the live content, providing time…
- blimp noun An airship constructed with a nonrigid lifting agent container.
- blind adj Able to be fixed without access to one end.
- blind rivet noun A rivet which can be fixed with access only to the factory head end; most commonly a pop rivet fitted by passing the bucktail through the…
- blind spot noun A location where radio reception and/or transmission is significantly poorer than in surrounding locations.
- blindable adj Such that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
- blink noun A text formatting feature that causes text to disappear and reappear as a form of visual emphasis.
- blinkenlights noun The flashing lights on an electronic device such as a modem, router, or network hub (originally the front-panel lights on old computers).
- blinker noun In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each…
- blip noun A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen.
- blit noun A logical operation in which a block of data is rapidly moved or copied in memory, most commonly used to animate two-dimensional graphics.
- blivet noun A program that has messy source code.
- bloated adj Excessively overloaded with features, like bloatware.
- bloatware noun Software that is packed with too many features and therefore slow or unwieldy; software that is inefficiently designed and occupies an…
- block noun In Conway's Game of Life, a still life consisting of four living cells arranged in a two-by-two square.
- block cellular automaton noun A cellular automaton in which the grid is divided into distinct blocks in a uniform pattern, with the blocks being shifted by a certain…
- block cipher noun Any deterministic cipher that operates on fixed-size groups of bits (binary digits), called blocks, with an unvarying transformation…
- block coefficient noun The proportion occupied, by the submerged portion of a ship's or boat's hull, of a rectangular prism with dimensions equal to the maximum…
- block device noun An abstraction for buffered access to hardware devices, especially storage, where data is read or written in arbitrary-sized blocks.
- block hour noun The time from the moment an aircraft pushes back from the gate at departure of a revenue flight, until the moment the aircraft makes its…
- block time noun Synonym of flight time.
- blocked adj Banned or barred from connecting or logging on.
- blocker noun One who prevents another user from contacting them electronically.
- blocking noun A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- blocklist noun A list of websites or other material to be blocked.
- blockwise adj In terms of blocks of data.
- blogcast noun A short video aor audio clip published within a blog.
- Bloom filter noun A space-efficient probabilistic data structure that is used to test whether an element is a member of a set. False positive matches are…
- blooming noun The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.
- blorph noun A visual effects technique in which an entire setting morphs from one appearance into another (as opposed to the morphing of an object or…
- blort noun A metasyntactic variable, similar to foo and bar.
- blow a fuse verb To overload a circuit sufficiently that a fuse protecting it melts away (or informally a circuit breaker trips), stopping current from…
- blow away verb To delete (data, files, etc.).
- blow forward noun A firearm action where the propellant gas pressure and the friction of the bullet traveling down the bore drag the whole gun barrel forward…
- blow in verb To activate a blast furnace by eliminating moisture and then igniting a large amount of fuel.
- blowable adj That can cease to function when overloaded.
- blowback noun A type of action where the pressure from the fired cartridge blows a sliding mechanism backward to extract the fired cartridge, chamber…
- blowdown noun The action of aerodynamic forces to tend to cause a deflected control surface to return to its neutral position, or prevent the surface…
- blowdown limit noun The maximum deflection that a control surface is capable of reaching under given flight conditions, past which the aerodynamic forces…
- blowhole verb To fill or be filled with air in an unintended cavity.
- Blu-ray Disc noun An optical disc storage medium used for data and video, introduced in 2006, having the same physical dimensions as a CD or DVD but greater…
- blucket noun A type of turbine blade where the inner portion of the blade is driven by expanding exhaust gases from the engine core, while the outer…
- blue verb To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust.
- blue box noun An electronic device used to bypass payment on a tone pulse telephone system.
- blue ice noun Human waste that has leaked from an aircraft, frozen at high altitude, and fallen to earth.
- blue room noun The toilet or washroom on a passenger aircraft.
- blue screen noun Ellipsis of blue screen of death.
- blue screen of death noun An error screen displayed by some operating systems, especially Microsoft Windows, after encountering an unrecoverable error which causes…
- blue-green deployment noun The technique of rolling out changes to a system by alternating the production and staging servers each time. One server is referred to as…
- blueprint noun A detailed technical drawing (now often in some electronically storable and transmissible form).
- bluescreen verb To experience a stop error and shut down to prevent damage to system hardware.
- blur verb To transfer the input focus away from.
- blush verb Of dope or varnish: to develop an undesirable white precipitate on the surface, due to being applied in humid conditions.
- BNC connector noun A connector for a coaxial cable which keeps the central wire from touching the cable's outer shield.
- board finger noun A part used in printed circuit boards to form the traces of the edge connector which plug into matching sockets.
- boat noun In Conway’s Game of Life, a particular still life consisting of a dead cell surrounded by five living cells.
- boat lift noun A mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another, while keeping them afloat.
- bob noun A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers.
- body noun The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.
- body contact noun A conductive connection between body and active parts of electrical equipment resulting from a fault.
- body gear noun Landing gear mounted in the lower part of an aircraft's fuselage, generally between or slightly behind the wings.
- bodyoid noun A hypothetical brainless version of an animal (especially a human) used to grow organs, test drugs, etc.
- bogey noun A standard of performance set up as a mark to be aimed at in competition.
- bogie noun A set of wheels attached to one of an aircraft's landing gear, or the structure connecting the wheels in one such set.
- BogoMIPS noun A crude informal measurement of CPU speed, made by the Linux kernel while booting and used to calibrate an internal busy loop.
- bogon noun The imaginary elementary particle of bogosity; the anti-particle to the cluon.
- bogosort noun An intentionally poor sorting algorithm that operates by randomly permuting the elements repeatedly until they happen to fall into the…
- bogus adj Incorrect, useless, or broken.
- bohrbug noun A software bug which manifests reliably under a well-defined, but possibly unknown, set of conditions.
- boilerplate adj Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures.
- boink noun A real-world social gathering of computer users.
- bolt noun A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.
- bolt-on adj Used to extend an existing system, operating as an add-on or plug-in.
- bolter verb To miss a landing on an aircraft carrier by failing to catch the arresting gear wires with the aircraft's tailhook.
- boltface noun The front surface of a bolt in a firearm or back of the firing chamber, against which the cartridge rests.
- bomb verb To crash.
- bombe noun An electromechanical device used in early cryptanalysis.
- bomber noun A military aircraft designed to carry and drop bombs.
- bond verb To make a reliable electrical connection between two conductors (or any pieces of metal that may potentially become conductors).
- bonding noun A method of aggregating multiple network interfaces on a computer into a single logical interface
- bone verb To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- boneyard noun A dumpsite for obsolete or unusable aircraft etc; a junkyard.
- bonfire verb To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
- bonfiring noun The act of firing pottery using a bonfire.
- bookkeeping noun General tasks for maintaining a system.