About

Industrial Dictionary defines 5,000 terms drawn from 26 trades — the supplies, equipment and components you order, the processes you run, and the lingo that only makes sense on the floor.

What's in it

Every entry carries a headword, part of speech, the trade it belongs to, any register label that matters (slang, dated, regional, obsolete), a definition written for the industrial sense of the word, and a link to its source.

Coverage is broadest in manufacturing, electrical engineering, automotive, mining, rail and construction, and deliberately includes a shop talk and trade slang section — the names people actually use, which rarely make it into a catalogue.

Where it comes from

Definitions are selected from English Wiktionary via Kaikki.org's Wiktextract exports, built from the 2026-07-06 English Wiktionary dump (snapshot published 2026-07-25). Only senses explicitly carrying an industrial topic label are considered; empty, malformed and meta-only glosses are rejected, and headwords are deduplicated case-insensitively across the whole collection.

Definitions are lightly normalized for delivery — whitespace collapsed, control characters removed. No quotations, etymologies, translations or pronunciation media are copied. Every entry links to the live Wiktionary page for its full history.

Safety

This is a terminology reference, not an operating manual. A definition that says what a tool or process does is not a safe-work procedure. Before operating, servicing, lifting, energizing, cutting, entering or isolating equipment, use the manufacturer's current instructions, your site's approved procedure, and the laws and standards that apply where you are. Shop slang varies by plant and region.

Reuse

Entry text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 — see the license.