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Civil engineering   /sˈɪvəl ˈɛndʒənˈɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Civil engineering

noun
1.
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of such public works as dams or bridges.





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"Civil engineering" Quotes from Famous Books



... frequenting the markets and the shops, attending lectures in anatomy and surgery, learning even how to draw teeth; visiting museums and manufactories, holding intercourse with learned men, and making considerable proficiency in civil engineering and the science of fortification. Nothing escaped his eager inquiries. "Wat is dat?" was his perpetual exclamation. "He devoured every morsel of knowledge with unexampled voracity." Never was seen a man on this earth with a more devouring appetite for knowledge of every ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume VIII • John Lord


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