chemical engineering

1. 1.

   the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes

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2. 2.

   the activity of applying chemistry to the solution of practical problems

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Questions about chemical engineering

What does chemical engineering mean?

chemical engineering means "the branch of engineering that is concerned with the design and construction and operation of the plants and machinery used in industrial chemical processes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is chemical engineering a common word?

chemical engineering is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.