civil engineering

English

Wikiversity

Bridge across river Nile in Sudan.

Noun

civil engineering (uncountable)

1. The technical design and construction of public works such as bridges, buildings, harbours, public greens, roads, etc., and/or technically equivalent private (usually corporate) ones.

Derived terms

• civils

Related terms

• civil engineer

Translations

technical design and construction of public works and/or equivalent private ones

• Arabic: الهندسة المدنية
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土木工程 (zh) (tǔmù gōngchéng)

• Czech: stavební inženýrství n
• Dutch: burgerlijke bouwkunde
• Finnish: yhdyskuntatekniikka (fi) (technology); rakennussuunnittelu (design); rakentaminen (fi) (construction)
• French: génie civil (fr) m
• Georgian: სამოქალაქო ინჟინერია (samokalako inžineria)
• German: Bauingenieurwesen n, Bauwesen (de) n
• Hebrew: הַנְדָּסָה אֶזְרָחִית (he) f (handasah ezrakhit)
• Hungarian: építőmérnöki/általános mérnöki munka/munkálatok/tudományok
• Indonesian: teknik sipil
• Irish: innealtóireacht shibhialta f
• Italian: genio civile m, ingegneria civile (it) f
• Japanese: 土木工学 (どぼくこうがく, doboku kōgaku)
• Khmer: អសេនិកវិស្វកម្ម (a’seenɨk vi’sva’kam), វិស្វកម្មស៊ីវិល (vi’sva’kam siivɨl)
• Korean: 토목공학(土木工學) (ko) (tomokgonghak)
• Malay: kejuruteraan awam (ms)
• Polish: inżynieria wodno-lądowa f, inżynieria lądowa f
• Portuguese: engenharia civil f
• Russian: строи́тельная инжене́рия f (stroítelʹnaja inženérija), гражда́нское строи́тельство n (graždánskoje stroítelʹstvo)
• Spanish: ingeniería civil f
• Tagalog: bayanhing agsikapan
• Turkish: inşaat mühendisliği (tr)
• Vietnamese: kỹ thuật xây dựng dân dụng

References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967