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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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isochrome
Engineering; Civil engineering
A curve showing the distribution of the excess hydrostatic pressure at a given time during a process of consolidation.
landslide
Engineering; Civil engineering
The failure of a sloped bank of soil or rock in which the movement of the mass takes place along a surface of sliding.
Manning's roughness coefficient (n)
Engineering; Civil engineering
A coefficient used to describe the relative roughness of a channel and overbank areas; used in hydraulic computations.
Mica
Engineering; Civil engineering
Group of minerals that form thin, platy flakes, typically with shiny surfaces, especially common in metamorphic rocks.
return-flow system
Engineering; Civil engineering
A system of pipelines or ditches to collect and convey surface or subsurface runoff from an irrigated field for reuse.
reuse system
Engineering; Civil engineering
A system of pipelines or ditches to collect and convey surface or subsurface runoff from an irrigated field for reuse.
seismotectonic
Engineering; Civil engineering
Of, relating to, or designating structural features of the earth which are associated with or revealed by earthquakes.
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