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Answer for the clue "The discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems ", 11 letters:
engineering

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Word definitions for engineering in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Engineering is a professional discipline. Engineering may also refer to: Engineering (magazine) (established 1886), weekly magazine Engineering (constituency) , an electoral constituency in Hong Kong

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Engineer \En`gi*neer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Engineered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Engineering .] To lay out or construct, as an engineer; to perform the work of an engineer on; as, to engineer a road. --J. Hamilton. To use contrivance and effort for; to guide the ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (label en uncountable) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology. vb. (present participle of engineer English)

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1720, "work done by an engineer," from engineer (n.). As a field of study, attested from 1792. An earlier word was engineership (1640s); engineery was attempted in 1793, but it did not stick.

Usage examples of engineering.

In the kind of universe Herbert sees, where there are no final answers, and no absolute security, adaptability in all its forms-- from engineering improvisation to social mobility to genetic variability--is essential.

British engineering magazine to describe a kind of aerofoil used in experiments.

Murphy walked aft to look into the maneuvering room to see how the Engineering Officer of the Watch was handling the frantic actions required during a reactor scram.

It was strange, that the entire ship was divided between these two officers, Alameda running the aft half with the engineering spaces, Crossfield responsible for the operation of the tactical half, the forward spaces with the torpedoes and electronic control and sensor areas.

How embarrassing would that be, he thought in panic, if Alameda had heard him moaning her name while he was in the lower rack mere inches from her fold-down desk while she pulled an allnighter on her engineering paperwork?

So it was that Asquith purged his body of all nanotechnology, reversed some minor gene engineering, and arrived on Ambergris just in time for some of the excitement he thought he was seeking.

Its authors, Heinz van Foerster, Patricia Mora and Lawrence Amiot, were members of the staff of the department of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.

Not only in experience of electrical engineering but also in native practical ability they were eclipsed by their arachnoid partners.

After graduating from Cairo University with a degree in architectural engineering in 1990, Atta worked as an urban planner in Cairo for a couple of years.

It gave tolerances in engineering terms, defining what a barbie could look like.

The other green, Res Sandre, preferred to monitor propulsion and engineering, working with the reticent AI named Basho to use this time out of Hawking space to good advantage in taking stock.

Beeah Chok, engineering second, to make binding legal contracts contingent on her signature.

Whether he was analyzing the latest digital microchips or the clunky circuits found in old televisions, he found that all the components were just a few electrical steps from one another, yet they were much more clustered than they would have been in an equivalent random circuit, thanks to the modular design favored by engineering practice.

Many aviation and engineering workshops were damaged around Tempelhof Airport, where two light aircraft parked in the open were destroyed and where a Stirling bomber crashed.