| Bridling | (english) The cold working of dead soft annealed strip metal immediately prior to a forming, bending, or drawing operation. A process designed to prevent the formulation of Luder's lines. Caution-Bridled metal should be used promptly and not permitted to (of itself) return to its pre-bridled condition. |
| Bright Basic Wire | (english) Bright steel wire, slightly softer than Bright Bessemer Wire. Used for round head wood screws, bolts and rivets, electric welded chain, etc. |
| Softening | (Environmental Engineering) The removal of divalent cations by precipitation or ion exchange. |
| Abstraction - | (Software Engineering) (1) the level of technical detail of some representation of software; (2) a cohesive model of data or an algorithmic procedureAction (also called Software engineering action) - |
| Adaptive maintenance - | (Software Engineering) activity associate with changing an application to make it conform to changes in its external environment |
| Aesthetic design - | (Software Engineering) a Web engineering action that focuses on the aesthetics (e.g., the artistic elements) of a WebApp (often encompasses graphic design) |
| Agile development (also referred to as agile process model) - | (Software Engineering) an adapted version of software engineering that emphasizes customer communication, incremental software delivery, informal methods and work products, and highly motivated teams. |
| Analysis - | (Software Engineering) a set of activities that attempt to understand and model customer needs and constraintsAnalysis methods - |
| Architectural design - | an activity that attempts to layout the module "floor plan" for the software |
| Architecture - | (Software Engineering) the overall structure of software components, the data and/or content that components manipulate, and the relationships between them |