| 单词 | biological engineering |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbiological engineering biological engineering n. (in early use) modification of the (esp. urban) human environment to improve public health; (in later use) = bioengineering n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > engineering > [noun] > branches of waterwork?a1560 civil engineeringc1770 water engineering1787 millwrighting1821 engineering science1826 hydraulic engineering1835 river engineering1842 structural engineering1859 industrial engineering1860 chemical engineering1861 sanitary engineering1868 biological engineering1898 control engineering1914 radio engineering1915 environmental engineering1946 systems engineering1946 bioengineering1950 value engineering1959 biomedical engineering1961 geoengineering1962 macro-engineering1964 microengineering1964 terotechnology1970 hydroengineering1971 civil1975 mechatronics1976 knowledge engineering1977 1898 Perkins Inst. & Mass. School for Blind Ann. Rep. 48 This [sc. a system of physical training] is truly..a work of biological engineering. It is based on purely physiological principles, and keeps pace with every pedagogical and neurologic discovery. 1935 Science 26 July (Sci. News Suppl.) 11/2 Their productive ‘machines’ are living cows and pigs, cornstalks and wheat plants. These offer problems in biological engineering that differ from those which chemical engineering must solve..only in being much more difficult and complicated. 1994 D. Rushkoff Cyberia i. iv. 44 Most realistic visions of wireheading involved as-yet uninvented biological engineering techniques [which]..would provide a direct, physical interface between a human nervous system..and computer hardware. 2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 113/1 Biological engineering is not ordinary biotechnology or genetic engineering. It is the application of engineering principles to the construction of novel genetic structures. < as lemmas |
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