| Receiving water | (Environmental Engineering) A water which receives wastewater (treated or otherwise) discharges. |
| Receiving water quality standards | (Environmental Engineering) Standards which require a discharger to maintain a certain quality level in the receiving water. |
| Virus | (Environmental Engineering) A submicroscopic genetic constituent which can alternate between two distinct phases. As a virus particle, or virion, it is DNA or RNA enveloped in an organic capsule. As an intracellular virus, it is viral DNA or RNA inserted into the host organisms DNA or RNA. |
| Configuration items - | (Software Engineering) the individual pieces of programs, documents and data that are controlled using SCM |
| Design specification - | (Software Engineering) a document that describes the design |
| Documentation - | (Software Engineering) descriptive information |
| Engineering change order (ECO) - | (Software Engineering) a mini-specification that describes the technical aspects of a change |
| Extreme programming - | (Software Engineering) an agile process model that emphasizes scenario-based planning, incremental delivery, refactoring, pair programming and continuous testing. |
| Formulation - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that identifies business need, describes WebApp objectives, defines major features and functions, and establishes mechanisms for requirements gathering |
| Paper prototype - | (Software Engineering) a paper representation of an application (e.g., story boards that describe the interaction at a human interface) |