DieQua Corporation provides resources for engineers - whether catalogs, product videos, or industry-related news and updates. That’s why we created a list of engineering terms and definitions as a resource. Take a look at our glossary of commonly used engineering terminology to see what other engineers are using and referring to. Also for your convenience, check out this gears infographic to see the difference between types of gears.   Acceleration - The rate of change of velocity of an object with respect to time. Allowance - Allowance - planned deviation between an exact dimension [...]