Advanced   Some of the articles may contains words that those outside of the engineering world might not be too familiar with. Here are the words that are used throughout this issue. 51 . Diodes Electronic devices that has two electrodes or terminals and are used especially as rectifiers. Found in Immersed in Reality . View Article 52 . DNA Very long, double-stranded molecules that contain genetic information; information is encoded with an alphabet of four biochemical bases: adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G), and cytosine (C). Found in DNA Fingerprinting . View Article 53 . DNA polymerase An enzyme that replicates DNA. Found in DNA Fingerprinting . View Article 54 . Dredging The process of to scooping up mud, gravel, or obstructions from the bottom of a body of water with the purpose of deepening them. Found in Collaborative Engineering Creates Artificial Mega-Structure at the Port of Los Angeles . View Article 55 . Dynamic Soaring Increasing airspeed by exploitation of the difference in speed of two adjacent masses of air. Found in Dynamic Soaring . View Article 56 . Ecological humanism Idea developed by Andrew Brennan stating that the identity of place has a strong influence on the personal being. Found in The Spiritual Powers of Engineering . View Article 57 . Electrodialysis Method of transporting salt from one solution to another by applying an electric current. Found in Engineering Water: Finding Solutions to a Drying Well . View Article 58 . Element In graphics, a part of an image that is combined with other elements to make a final image; i.e., green screen shots and water animations to be mixed in with live action are both elements. Found in Photo-Realism: An Exact Science? . View Article 59 . Elevation view A frontal view. Found in The Spiritual Powers of Engineering . View Article 60 . Emergence Unpredictable behavior from the computer through systemic level design. Found in Immersion Through Video Games . View Article   Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Next

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