What you'd probably say, and what an engineer, a supplier or an inspector would call it. Engineering runs on precise words because the cost of a misunderstanding is measured in money or in injuries.
Engineering is a dozen professions sharing a name. Naming the right one is the difference between a useful hour and a wasted one \u2014 and for anything that gets permitted or inspected, the wrong discipline legally can't sign it.
The working vocabulary, grouped by stage \u2014 from what you're trying to build through to who signs off that it's safe.
Engineering talks in units and ratings. Here's how to read the ones on a spec sheet, a nameplate or a quote.