ocean engineeringn. chiefly U.S. the branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and operation of vessels, equipment, and structures for use in or on the ocean; cf. marine engineeringn. at marinen. and adj. Compounds 2.
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1964 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. 12/3 The task of improving the science of ocean engineering which the Navy has undertaken..will very quickly bear results.
1994 Sci. Amer. Jan. 127/1 Michael S. Triantafyllou, an M.I.T. professor of ocean engineering and the father of the seaborg.