civil engineering
- the work or profession of a civil engineer.
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Civil-engineering is what I think I should like better than anything else in the world!
CampmatesKirk Munroe
Here is your font, not at all of Saint John, but of profane and civil-engineering John.
Val d'ArnoJohn Ruskin
civil engineering
[sĭv′əl]
- The branch of engineering that specializes in the design and construction of structures such as bridges, roads, and dams.
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