Engineering vs Ecology - What's the difference?
engineering | ecology |
(label) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
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The branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.
* 1949 - Bruce Kiskaddon, George R. Stewart
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As nouns the difference between engineering and ecology
is that engineering is the application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology while ecology is the branch of biology dealing with the relationships of organisms with their environment and with each other.As a verb engineering
is present participle of lang=en.engineering
English
(wikipedia engineering)Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
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 engineeringSee also
* science * applied mathematicsecology
English
(wikipedia ecology)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
- As a graduate student, he was working on a thesis: The Ecology of the Black Creek Area . He had to investigate the relationships, past and present, of men and plants and animals in this region.
citation, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}