barnacle (English, noun)
expansion: barnacle (plural barnacles)
Senses:
glosses: A marine crustacean of the subclass Cirripedia that attaches itself to submerged surfaces such as tidal rocks or the bottoms of ships.
glosses: The barnacle goose.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In electrical engineering, a change made to a product on the manufacturing floor that was not part of the original product design.
tags: slang
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: On printed circuit boards, a change such as soldering a wire in order to connect two points, or addition such as an added resistor or capacitor, subassembly or daughterboard.
tags: slang
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A deprecated or obsolete file, image or other artifact that remains with a project even though it is no longer needed.
tags: slang
glosses: An instrument like a pair of pincers, to fix on the nose of a vicious horse while shoeing so as to make it more tractable.
tags: in-plural
obsolete
glosses: A pair of spectacles.
tags: British
archaic
in-plural
slang
glosses: A good job, or snack easily obtained.
tags: obsolete
slang
glosses: A worldly sailor.
tags: slang
Forms:
form: barnacles
tags: plural