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Technical Design And Engineering

Subject : engineering
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1. The unlawful acquisition of some one's personal information for use without their consent.






2. The measure of work done over a period of time as energy is converted from one form to another or transferred from one place to another.






3. The path by which a message travels from the sender to receiver.






4. Creating things through the process of planning.






5. The act of putting different things together to form a new product or idea.






6. A device capable of detecting (sensing) changes in its environment; light and movement are examples.






7. A device that creates a mechanical advantage. Complex machines are based on 6 simple machines in various combinations.






8. The law that states that if the pressure of a gas increases - the volume decreases (provided that the temperature remains constant).


9. The use of a computer system to produce technical drawings and/or design a product.






10. Trade of products and services on a global scale.






11. The knowledge - tools - machines - skills - and other things that people make and do to send and receive information.






12. A group of parts that work together to accomplish a goal. The basic parts of a system are input - process - and output.






13. The basic framework of a system






14. The money a business makes after all expenses have been paid






15. A method of obtaining energy from waste products






16. The number of waves that pass through a given point in one second. It is commonly measured in a unit called hertz. 1Hz is equal to one complete wave cycle in one second.






17. The use of pressurized liquid or gasses to control and transmit power.






18. A wave created by electric and magnetic fields;it travels through the air like ripples in a pool of water.






19. The process of turning abstractions of thought into concrete ideas.






20. Stored energy or energy at rest.






21. A circuit in which electricity flows along a single path to more than one device.






22. The use of computers in each stage of the design process.






23. Energy in motion.






24. The long term storage mechanism of a computer. It holds the computer programs used for word processing - playing games - and other tasks.






25. Processes and knowledge that can be used to extend human abilities as well as satisfy human needs and wants.






26. The use of 3D CAD drawings to create real models of a product within a sort of time.






27. Any information about the output of a system that is returned to the system for the purpose of determining whether or not the system is functioning as it should.






28. The field of knowledge relating to materials as they exists on a molecular or atomic level.






29. The use of lasers to record realistic images of three- dimensional objects.






30. Restriction or limit placed on a product.






31. A very small solid state panel that contains light sensitive photo- sites or photo- diodes. The CCD uses the photo- sites to convert light into electrical signals transformed into an image.






32. Heat generated within the Earth as the result of the decay of radioactive materials beneath the Earth's crust.






33. The design of equipment and environments to promote human health - safety - and well- being; sometimes referred to as ergonomics.






34. A unit that collects waves and decodes information contained within those waves.






35. The use of force to act on an object in order to move move the object in the same direction as the force.






36. Standards that a product must meet to be accepted.






37. The judgement of the end result based upon given criteria.






38. An agreement that permits free trade among member nations. The decrease in trade barriers help manufacturers find larger markets for there product.






39. The formal rules that guide the design process.






40. In a computer - the primary circuit board to which all internal componnets are connected either directly or indirectly.






41. A production system in which products are made one at a time according to customer's specifications.






42. The splitting of the nucleus of an atom.






43. The act of breaking a particular subject into different parts to achieve clarity of understanding.






44. The comparison of the amount of goods produced (output) to the amount of resources (input) that produced them






45. The height of a wave measured from the top of its peak to the bottom of its trough. It is an indicator of the strength of a wave.






46. The superimposition of sine waves on electromagnetic carrier waves.






47. The passage of electric current through an electrolytic fluid for the purpose of separating molecules.






48. The path by which electric current or pulses flow.






49. A language - used to write computer programs - that can easily be translated into machine language.






50. A circuit in which electricity flows along more than one path.