Results for engineering

1. Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the
properties of matter are made useful to man, whether in structures, machines, chemical substances, or living
organisms; the occupation and work of an engineer.  In the modern sense, the application of mathematics or
systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise, for the design of any complex system which
performs useful functions, may be considered as engineering, including such abstract tasks as designing
software (software engineering).




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