electrical engineering

1. 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

   SynonymsEE

   Broaderengineering

   Narrowertelecommunication

Questions about electrical engineering

What does electrical engineering mean?

electrical engineering means "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".

What is another word for electrical engineering?

Close synonyms include EE. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is electrical engineering a common word?

electrical 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.