| Subject | English | Icelandic |
| comp., MS | decision engine | ákvarðanavél (Software or service able to process a large amount of data and provide reports that help users make more informed decisions) |
| comp., MS | Gesture Engine | Hreyfiskipunarvél (An engine that specifically recognizes and processes touch input and multi-touch input as commands) |
| comp., MS | search engine | leitarvél (A program that searches for key words in documents, databases, Internet content or other files) |
| comp., MS | search engine optimization | leitarvélabestun (The act of modifying the pages of a Web site so that its content is more easily discoverable by Internet search engines) |
| comp., MS | synchronization engine | samstillingarvél (A software system that retrieves information from a source data store and synchronizes (pushes) to a target data store. Examples of synchronization engines are the ILM 2007 and FIM 2010 synchronization engines, and the service that synchronizes data rows in the SQL Server Express database with objects in the Microsoft Office Outlook data store) |
