boost

• Boost (automotive engineering), positive manifold [an arrangement of pipes through which gases enter or leave a car engine] pressure in engines
• Boost (C++ libraries), a set of free peer-reviewed portable C++ libraries
• Boost, a loose term for turbo [涡轮] or supercharger [增压器]
• Boost converter, an electrical circuit variation of a DC to DC converter, which increases (boosts) the voltage
• Boosted fission [裂变] weapon, a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion [聚变] fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction
• Boosting (machine learning), a supervised learning algorithm
• Intel Turbo Boost, a technology that enables a processor to run above its base operating frequency
• Jump start (vehicle), to start a vehicle
• Lorentz boost, a type of Lorentz transformation [洛伦兹变换]

A jump start, also called a boost, is a method of starting a vehicle that has a discharged or dead battery. [燃油车的电瓶没电时] A temporary connection is made to the battery of another vehicle, or to some other external power source. The external supply of electricity recharges the disabled vehicle's battery and provides some of the power needed to crank the engine. [以前没电瓶和启动机，只能手摇曲柄启动] Once the vehicle has been started, its normal charging system will recharge, so the auxiliary source can be removed. If the vehicle charging system is functional, normal operation of the vehicle will restore the charge of the battery.

Jumper cables, also known as booster cables or jump leads, are a pair of insulated wires of sufficient capacity with alligator clips [鳄鱼夹的准确叫法是短吻鳄夹:-) crocodile] at each end to interconnect the disabled equipment/vehicle with an auxiliary source, such as another vehicle or equipment with the same system voltage or to another battery. 电脑主板上的叫跳线。

  

Intel Turbo Boost is Intel's trade name for central processing units (CPUs) dynamic frequency scaling feature that automatically raises certain versions of its operating frequency when demanding tasks are running, thus enabling a higher resulting performance.

AMD's Ryzen CPUs are able to take advantage of AMD's Extended Frequency Range (XFR) feature, which automatically overclock chips to their maximum potential, based entirely on how good the cooling is. While Intel chips boost their frequency by switching to 'Turbo' when the going gets tough, Ryzen CPUs may do far more or less, depending on how strong your cooling solution is. [link]

Linux supports dynamic frequency scaling.

六级/考研单词: boost, convert, volt, fusion, thereby, yield, supervise, discharge, disable, norm, auxiliary, insulate, suffice, clip, equip, dynamic