- (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.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Engineer.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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