plural of Automated Transfer Vehicle

(transport, space science) An expendable unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency.

(software) A design pattern used to transfer data between software application subsystems.

plural of data transfer object

(astronautics) A type of movement of a spacecraft from one orbit to another, in which the spacecraft first raises its apoapsis to an extremely high altitude, then, at the new, higher, apoapsis, performs an engine burn to change its periapsis to that of the desired orbit, and, finally, upon reaching the new periapsis, performs a third burn to lower the eccentricity of its orbit and circularize in the desired orbit, or performs these steps in reverse to move from a higher to a lower orbit.

(US) An electronic system that allows state welfare departments to issue benefits using a magnetically encoded payment card.

plural of bi-elliptic transfer

plural of phase-transfer catalyst

The transfer function of the forward path of a control system

The transfer function of the feedback path of a control system