NewTqnia glossary
Technology glossary
Concise, trustworthy definitions for the technical terms that appear across our news coverage.
300 terms
Pneumothorax
A condition in which air collects between the lung and chest wall, potentially causing part or all of the lung to collapse.
Political Bias Evaluation
Polygenic Risk
Risk influenced by the combined effects of many genetic variants, each usually contributing a small amount.
Power Conversion Efficiency
The percentage of incoming energy that a device converts into the intended useful output. The figure must be interpreted at the stated boundary, because a receiver’s efficiency does not include losses in generating, transmitting or aiming the energy source.
Prebiotic Chemistry
Privilege Escalation
Privilege escalation is the process of gaining permissions beyond those initially granted, allowing an attacker or compromised process to access protected resources or perform administrative actions.
Pro-Terror Material
Online material that promotes, praises, instructs, recruits for or otherwise supports terrorist acts or organizations, as defined by the applicable law or platform standard. The exact legal scope varies by jurisdiction.
Protected Leave
Protein Reconstruction
The inference of a protein's likely sequence or structure from incomplete, damaged, or indirect evidence.
Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud(pyroCb)
A thunderstorm cloud generated by intense heat and rising air from a wildfire or volcanic eruption. It can produce lightning, strong winds and inject smoke high into the atmosphere.
Quantum-Dot Light-Emitting Diode
Quasar
Quasi-Solid Electrolyte
Radiation-Hardened Computing
Raman Spectroscopy
Randomized Controlled Trial
RAS Inhibitor
Reaction Latency
Reaction latency is the elapsed time between detecting a relevant change or event and producing the corresponding system response. In robotics, it includes sensing, inference, communication, and actuation delays.
Real-Time Decision Support
Real-Time Rendering
Real-World Fuel Consumption
Recombinant Spider Silk
Spider-silk proteins produced using engineered cells rather than harvested from spiders.
Reconfigurable Electronics
Remotely Operated Vehicle(ROV)
An underwater robot controlled by operators through a tether or communication link.
Reservoir Engineering
Retinal Prosthesis
An implanted visual device that stimulates retinal cells to provide limited artificial vision.
Robot Interoperability
The ability of software, tools and control systems to work across robots from different manufacturers or with different hardware.
Robot-Assisted Bronchoscopy
A physician-controlled procedure that uses robotic navigation to guide a flexible bronchoscope and biopsy tools through branching airways toward small or difficult lung lesions.
