Maintenance vs Engineering - What's the difference?
maintenance | engineering |
Actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service
(legal) A tort committed when a third party who does not have a bona fide interest in a lawsuit provides help or acquires an interest to a litigant's lawsuit.
(legal) (UK English) Alimony, a periodical payment or a lump sum made or ordered to be made to a spouse after a divorce.
Money required or spent to provide for the needs of a person or a family.
(label) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.
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As nouns the difference between maintenance and engineering
is that maintenance is actions performed to keep some machine or system functioning or in service while engineering is (label) the application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.As a verb engineering is
.maintenance
English
(wikipedia maintenance)Alternative forms
* maintenaunceNoun
(en noun)See also
* high-maintenance * low-maintenance * maintenance-free * maintenance windowExternal links
* * * ----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.}}