I never heard the word used in my family, except as an engineering term.
In engineering terms we want to recover the signal from a message by filtering out the noise.
Energy density is the engineering term that defines these desired qualities.
"In engineering terms, we refer to something like that as a mechanical fuse."
That allowed researchers to monitor heart functions in engineering terms.
He was using engineering terms that several times must have been very close to a Code break.
The engineering term for this type of mechanism is a walking beam.
However, this provides for no selectivity and in electrical engineering terms is considered a poor solution.
Source direct, also known as tone defeat or bypass is a sound engineering term.
And here I thought it was one of your engineering terms.