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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Engineering \En`gi*neer"ing\, n. Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer. Note: In a comprehensive sense engineering includes architecture as a mechanical art, in distinction from architecture as a fine art. It was formerly divided into military engineering, which is the art of designing and constructing offensive and defensive works and civil engineering, in a broad sense as relating to other kinds of public works machinery, etc {Civil engineering}, in modern usage, is strictly the art of planning, laying out and constructing fixed public works such as railroads, highways, canals, aqueducts, water works bridges, lighthouses, docks, embankments, breakwaters, dams, tunnels, etc {Mechanical engineering} relates to machinery, such as steam engines, machine tools, mill work etc {Mining engineering} deals with the excavation and working of mines, and the extraction of metals from their ores, etc Engineering is further divided into steam engineering, gas engineering, agricultural engineering, topographical engineering, electrical engineering, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Engineer \En`gi*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Engineered}; p. pr & vb n. {Engineering}.] 1. To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on as to engineer a road. --J. Hamilton. 2. To use contrivance and effort for to guide the course of to manage; as to engineer a bill through Congress. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: engineering n 1: the practical application of science to commerce or industry [syn: {technology}] 2: the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems; "he had trouble deciding which branch of engineering to study" [syn: {engineering science}, {applied science}, {technology}] 3: a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located [syn: {engine room}]
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