Engineering Definition

ĕnjə-nîrĭng
noun
The science concerned with putting scientific knowledge to practical uses, divided into different branches, as civil, electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering.
Webster's New World
The planning, designing, construction, or management of machinery, roads, bridges, buildings, etc.
Webster's New World
The profession of or the work performed by an engineer.
American Heritage
The act of maneuvering or managing.
Webster's New World

The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.

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verb

Present participle of engineer.

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Noun

Singular:
engineering
Plural:
engineerings

Origin of Engineering

Engineering Sentence Examples

  • The shipbuilding and engineering trades are active and advancing.

  • While she knew his genetic engineering made him harder to kill, she'd never imagined he'd survived.

  • The great engineering works of Cimon provided a suitable area for the magnificent structures of the age of Pericles.

  • As his health improved it was hoped that he would be able to adopt the family profession of civil engineering, and in 1868 he went to Anstruther and then to Wick as a pupil engineer.

  • The principal industries are shipbuilding (iron), boiler and engineering works, iron and brass foundries, steam saw and planing mills, flour-mills, paper and paint factories, and soapworks.

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Words Starting With

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