Definition of human engineering in US English:
human engineering
nounˈ(h)yo͞omən ˌenjəˈni(ə)riNG
The management of industrial labor, especially with regard to relationships between people and machines; ergonomics.
Example sentencesExamples
- She clapped her hands together and gasped at this feat of human engineering.
- But there's no shortage of opposition to human engineering.
- To be able to talk to anyone, at any time, without the mediator of the human messenger and without the messenger's attendant delays, is a thoroughly modern triumph of human engineering.
- If you live in a city, as I do, everything you see in every direction is the product of human engineering, design, or manipulation.
- One held up in the brightness of day, clean and normal and ordered, a testament to industry and human engineering, housing everyday people doing everyday jobs and going about their everyday business.