mechanical engineering

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

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Questions about mechanical engineering

What does mechanical engineering mean?

mechanical engineering means "the branch of engineering that deals with the design and construction and operation of machinery".

Is mechanical engineering a common word?

mechanical 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.