| 单词 | civil engineering |
| 释义 | > as lemmascivil engineering civil engineering n. the branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of works of public utility, esp. those relating to social infrastructure; cf. civil engineer n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > engineering > [noun] > branches of waterwork?a1560 civil engineeringc1770 water engineering1787 millwrighting1821 engineering science1826 hydraulic engineering1835 river engineering1842 structural engineering1859 industrial engineering1860 chemical engineering1861 sanitary engineering1868 biological engineering1898 control engineering1914 radio engineering1915 environmental engineering1946 systems engineering1946 bioengineering1950 value engineering1959 biomedical engineering1961 geoengineering1962 macro-engineering1964 microengineering1964 terotechnology1970 hydroengineering1971 civil1975 mechatronics1976 knowledge engineering1977 c1770 in Innes Rev. (1963) 14 124 He was familiarly spoken of as ‘the Deacon’ or ‘Archie’ or ‘planny Anderson’. Mr Anderson's sobriquet of ‘planny’ or ‘planner’ arose from his turn for architectural designs and civil engineering. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 932/1 Gabions filled with stones are used in civil engineering as defences for starlings of bridges. 1999 Materials World July 408/3 In the case of civil engineering, the system might prove useful to monitor buildings in earthquake zones or to examine the degradation of bonding in composite-reinforced structures. < as lemmas |
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