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Engineering

The discipline, art, skill and profession of applying scientific knowledge and principles to the design and manufacturing of machines, structures, devices, systems, materials and processes.

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convergence

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The eventual meeting of values or bodies at some point (sometimes at infinity, as in certain mathematical series). 2. The intersection point of the beams from separate ...

bogie

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The exact value of a specified characteristic. Thus, if resistance is given as 1 kΩ ±0.5%, the bogie value is 1 kΩ. 2. The average value (i.e., the arithmetic mean). 3. A ...

bogey

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The exact value of a specified characteristic. Thus, if resistance is given as 1 kΩ ±0.5%, the bogie value is 1 kΩ. 2. The average value (i.e., the arithmetic mean). 3. A ...

crystal pulling

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The extraction of a single crystal from a molten mass of crystalline material. Single crystals are used for high-quality semiconductor devices. Also see czochralski method, ...

contact area

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The face of an electrical contact. 2. The common area shared by two conductors in mutual contact.

closed loop

Engineering; Electronic engineering

1. The feedback path in a self-regulating control system. An oscillator, for example, is a closed-loop amplifier. 2. A loop within a program that would continue indefinitely, ...