ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical engineering mean? 

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

1. the branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of engineering science that studies the uses of electricity and the equipment for power generation and distribution and the control of machines and communication

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

EE; electrical engineering

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

applied science; engineering; engineering science; technology (the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems)

Domain member category:

repeater ((electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electrical engineering"):

telecommunication ((often plural) the branch of electrical engineering concerned with the technology of electronic communication at a distance)

 Context examples 

A master's degree in electrical engineering awarded after the completion of a program of one to three years in duration.

(Master of Electrical Engineering, NCI Thesaurus)

Nathalie de Leon, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Princeton University and the lead researcher, said the diamonds could serve as quantum repeaters for networks based on qubits.

(Key Tech for Quantum Communications Offered by Implanting Diamonds with Flaws, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“These electrostatic forces increase frictional thresholds,” said Josh Mendez Harper, a Georgia Tech geophysics and electrical engineering doctoral student who is the paper’s lead author.

('Electric Sands' Cover Titan, VOA News)