MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mechanical engineering mean? 

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

1. the branch of engineering that deals with the design and construction and operation of machinery

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of engineering that deals with the design and construction and operation of machinery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mechanical 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)

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

tribology (the branch of engineering that deals with the interaction of surfaces in relative motion (as in bearings or gears): their design and friction and wear and lubrication)

 Context examples 

The most exciting aspect to this analyser is that it uses whole blood (blood components intact) and doesn’t require additional steps and reagents to prepare a sample, says Nathan Sniadecki, professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Washington, Seattle, and an author of the report.

(New approach promises better anaemia detection, SciDev.Net)