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Civil engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction, and maintenance of such public works roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.
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At-rest earth pressure
Engineering; Civil engineering
The value of the earth pressure when the soil mass is in its natural state without having been permitted to yield or without having been compressed.
Basin runoff model
Engineering; Civil engineering
Any one of the computer programmes that mathematically models basin characteristics to forecast reservoir inflow from rainfall and/or streamflow data.
Butterfly valve
Engineering; Civil engineering
A valve designed for quick closure that consists of a circular leaf, slightly convex in form, mounted on a transverse shaft carried by two bearings.
Allochthonous
Engineering; Civil engineering
Exotic species of a given area. Also refers to deposits of material that originated elsewhere, e.g., drifted plant material on the bottom of a lake.
Granite
Engineering; Civil engineering
Light-colored, coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with quartz and feldspar as dominant minerals and typically peppered with mica and hornblende.
Plant factor
Engineering; Civil engineering
Ratio of average load on the plant for period of time considered to be the aggregate rating of all the generating equipment installed in the plant.
Anion
Engineering; Civil engineering
A negatively charged ion in an electrolyte solution, attracted to the anode under the influence of a difference in electrical potential. See cation.
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