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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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Load factor
Engineering; Civil engineering
The ratio of an average load to the maximum load. Average load carried by an engine, machine, or plant, expressed as a percentage of its maximum capacity.
Slide gate
Engineering; Civil engineering
A steel gate that upon opening or closing slides on its bearings in edge guide slots. A gate that can be opened or closed by sliding in supporting guides.
Zero air voids curve
Engineering; Civil engineering
The curve showing the relationship between dry unit weights and corresponding moisture contents, assuming that all of the voids are completely filled with water.
Flood routing
Engineering; Civil engineering
A process of determining progressively over time the amplitude of a flood wave as it moves past a dam or downstream to successive points along a river or stream.
Computer base station
Engineering; Civil engineering
Computer equipment that is designated to receive data from the data collection platforms and translate that data into useable information for the decision makers.
Emergency reserve fund
Engineering; Civil engineering
Money reserved or required by contract to be reserved by an operating entity for use in emergency situations involving facilities under the entity's jurisdiction.
Hornfels
Engineering; Civil engineering
Fine-grained, gray-green metamorphic rock produced by "baking" of sedimentary rocks by an igneous intrusion in which sedimentary features may still be preserved.
