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What's the adjective for a connector that fits in a "'shrouded" connector?
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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