ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical engineer mean? 

• ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (noun)
  The noun ELECTRICAL ENGINEER has 1 sense:

1. a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity

  Familiarity information: ELECTRICAL ENGINEER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL ENGINEER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("electrical engineer" is a kind of...):

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

Instance hyponyms:

Bush; Vannevar Bush (United States electrical engineer who designed an early analogue computer and who led the scientific program of the United States during World War II (1890-1974))

De Forest; Father of Radio; Lee De Forest (United States electrical engineer who in 1907 patented the first triode vacuum tube, which made it possible to detect and amplify radio waves (1873-1961))

Dolby; Ray M. Dolby (United States electrical engineer who devised the Dolby system used to reduce background noise in tape recording)

Heaviside; Oliver Heaviside (English physicist and electrical engineer who helped develop telegraphic and telephonic communications; in 1902 (independent of A. E. Kennelly) he suggested the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1850-1925))

A. E. Kennelly; Arthur Edwin Kennelly; Kennelly (United States electrical engineer noted for his work on the theory of alternating currents; independently of Oliver Heaviside he discovered the existence of an atmospheric layer that reflects radio waves back to earth (1861-1939))

Guglielmo Marconi; Marconi (Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937))

Ernst Werner von Siemens; Siemens (German electrical engineer (1816-1892))

Clive Sinclair; Sinclair; Sir Clive Marles Sinclair (English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940))

Charles Proteus Steinmetz; Steinmetz (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Germany) (1865-1923))

Nikola Tesla; Tesla (United States electrical engineer and inventor (born in Croatia but of Serbian descent) who discovered the principles of alternating currents and developed the first alternating-current induction motor and the Tesla coil and several forms of oscillators (1856-1943))

Elihu Thomson; Thomson (United States electrical engineer (born in England) who in 1892 formed a company with Thomas Edison (1853-1937))

 Context examples 

Yes, Mr. Holmes, Cyril Morton, an electrical engineer, and we hope to be married at the end of the summer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)