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| DavideAndrea:
For the last few years, I have been searching for an adjective that describes all connectors that fit inside a shrouded connector. I have not found a satisfactory one. I am about to go to press with a publication, which, until now, has a dummy placeholder for that adjective. I am desperate to replace that placeholder with an industry term. To be clear, I am _not_ asking about the gender of the contacts: * male * female * hermaphrodite * genderless I am asking about the gender of the housing: * with walls * fits inside a walled connector <-- this one * no walls * self-mating To show how difficult this has been for me, here are some attempts and suggestions I received over the years: | Shrouded mate | The other mate | Notes | | ----------- | ----------- | ----------- | | Pocket | Boss | Mechanical terms | | Mortise | Tenon | Carpentry terms | | Shrouded | Harbored | My latest attempt | | Shrouded | Enshrouded | The placeholder | | Shrouding | Shrouded | Logical, but against present norms | | Wrap | Jut | My first attempt | | Female housing | Male housing | A German manufacturer | | Cap | Receptacle | Molex, in a few cases | | Receptacle | Plug | Also Molex, in other cases (*) | | Socket | Plug | AC power connectors in some countries (*) | (Sorry, I can't manage to format a table in this forum) (*) Goes against IEEE definition of "plug". |
| u666sa:
In Russian, drawn in images as shrouded would be called shteker... The thing it inserts to would be called gnezdo -- literally a nest. I don't think you have in English language such adjectives. But you could borrow one from Russian. Gnezdo -- https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C |
| EntropyWizard:
Flanged |
| TimFox:
"Flanged" refers to the square (or rectangular) flat piece with holes for panel-mounting screws, not the shrouding around the connector itself. |
| jpanhalt:
The gender of a connector is determined by the contacts without regard to shroud or water proofing designs. There are, of course, non-gendered connectors too. Knife connects are one example. |
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