Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• scale up: To increase in size, number, or extent.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• at least: As a minimum
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• to scale: In proportion; maintaining accurate relative dimensions.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• at scale: In large quantities; with significant reach or impact.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• in terms of
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• stop by: To visit someone or some place for a short time
• in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
• on the market: Available for sale.
• trade off: Exchange that occurs as a compromise
• such as: For example; like
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• slightly: Only a little
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• stack: A large number or amount of something
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• performance: Act of doing something
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• application: Software program, e.g. for smart phone
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• copper: Reddish-brown metal used in cables or wires
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• rack: A frame, stand, hook on which things are hung
• assembly: Process of putting the parts of something together
• optical: Concerning vision or helping people see
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• booth: Small area where someone does something privately
• part: Division of a book
• mount: To attach something to something else
• interested: Having had your attention taken; curious
• implementation: A practical means for accomplishing something
• type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• found: To become aware of something that is happening
• illustration: Picture that helps explain something
• cable: To transmit a message over a wire
• datum: Item of factual information
• rev: Short form of reverend
• standpoint: Mental position from which things are viewed
• latency: State of being not yet evident or active
• socket: Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
• interconnect: To join or be joined together (computers/theories)
• compression: Act of reducing something in time, size, quantity
• substrate: A substance which a catalyst has an effect on
• gen: (UK old-fashioned, informal) Information about a particular subject
• differential: Different, as in treatment; discriminatory