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 — and for anything that gets permitted or inspected, the wrong discipline legally can't sign it.
The working vocabulary, grouped by stage — 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.