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Engineering vs Technique - What's the difference?

engineering | technique |

In uncountable terms the difference between engineering and technique

is that engineering is the application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology while technique is practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.

As a verb engineering

is present participle of lang=en.

engineering

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • The area aboard a ship where the engine is located.
  • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aerospace engineering * chemical engineering * civil engineering * control engineering * electrical engineering * engineering society * genetic engineering * geotechnical engineering * information engineering * manufacturing engineering * mechanical engineering * mechatronics engineering * memetic engineering * molecular engineering * protein engineering * reverse engineering * social engineering * software engineering * soil mechanics and engineering * sound engineering * systems engineering * tombstone engineering

    See also

    * science * applied mathematics

    technique

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements.
  • * 1924 , HE Wortham, A Musical Odyssey , p. 97:
  • Brahms, after realizing that the technique of the piano was developing along mistaken lines, and his own danger of stereotyping his style, keeps away from it for most of his middle age [...].
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}
  • (uncountable) Practical ability in some given field or practice, often as opposed to creativity or imaginative skill.
  • * 2011 , "Bhimsen Joshi", The Economist , 3 Feb 2011:
  • Yet those who packed concert halls to listen to him sing, as Indians did for over six decades, rarely mentioned his technique .
  • (label) a method of achieving something or carrying something out, especially one requiring some skill or knowledge.
  • * 2011 , Paul Lewis & Matthew Taylor, The Guardian , 16 Mar 2011:
  • They said executives were warned about one technique nicknamed "carpet karaoke", which involved bending deportees over in aircraft seats to silence them.