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locknut
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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For those situations when you just can't let go. This is Episode 54 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or f...

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  • Added: Feb 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:45
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duty cycle
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Not a doodie cycle, but a duty cycle. Episode 48 of Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating, or funny words and phra...

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  • Added: Dec 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
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normal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This is not normal. This is episode 45 of a series about engineering vocabulary, phrases, acronyms, jargon, and slang.

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  • Added: Nov 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
dross
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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This podcast is aiming to avoid being aural dross. This is episode 42 of the Engineering Word Of The Day, an informal show on favorite, fascinating...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2017
  • Length: 03:21
  • Purchases: 1
detent
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Let's have a détente over detents.

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2017
  • Length: 05:05
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sparging
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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If only we could be sparging all our troubles away...

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  • Added: Oct 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:06
  • Purchases: 1
autoclave
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Will your device design withstand repeated autoclaving?

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  • Added: Sep 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:17
  • Purchases: 1
azeotrope
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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And a heliotrope used to describe a flower that turns toward the sun.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
solder
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Why doesn't solder rhyme with older?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
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APLHGR
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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One who hugs apples? Or average planar linear heat generation rate?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
isomer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How are isomers like ice cream?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:15
  • Purchases: 1
circumscribe
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Trying not to talk in circles here.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:13
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orthogonal
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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I'm orthogonal, and I've never felt so right.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:01
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ephemerides
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When astronomical data becomes hard to pronounce.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
viscoelasticity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Sia's new music video for "Viscoelastic Heart" is pretty weird.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 1
inclinometer
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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A tool for pirates navigating the oceans, and more, yarrr...

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 03:44
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sensitivity
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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When you're almost done designing something, do you start to feel very sensitive?

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:24
  • Purchases: 1
UNF
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Acronyms galore! The UTC defines UNC and UNF standards in the USA. Oof.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:26
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stem cell
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Both a target and a tool of biomedical engineering nowadays.

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  • Added: Sep 26, 2017
  • Length: 04:06
  • Purchases: 1
valence
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Atomic poetry in the electron cloud model.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 03:51
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tappet
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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No, it's not an alternative slang form of "tap that," but it is a part that really gets us going.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Kelvin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Discussing this scale to measure average kinetic energy of matter.

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
autogyro
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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How is an autogyro different from a helicopter?

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2017
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
polymorphism
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Not to be confused with biological polymorphism, polymorphism in programming languages can add robustness to your engineering code.

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
adiabatic
From: Pius Wong
Series: Engineering Word Of The Day
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Compare and contrast: "adiabatic" versus "a diabetic"?

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  • Added: Sep 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1