Glossary of civil engineering

A

Abney level –

Abrams' law –

Abrasion –

Abrasion resistance –

Absolute electrode potential –

Absolute motion –

Absolute pressure –

Absolute zero –

Absorbance –

Abutment –

AC power –

Acceleration –

Acid –

Acid-base reaction –

Acid strength –

Acoustic board –

Acoustics –

Activated sludge –

Activated sludge model –

Active transport –

Actuator –

Acute angle –

Adenosine triphosphate –

Adhesion –

Adiabatic process –

Aerobic digestion –

Aerodynamics –

Aerospace engineering –

Afocal system –

Agricultural engineering –

Albedo –

Algae –

Algebra –

Algorithm –

Alkane –

Alkene –

Alkyne –

Alloy –

Alpha particle –

Alternating current –

Alternative hypothesis –

Ammeter –

Amino acid –

Amorphous solid –

Ampere –

Amphoterism –

Amplifier –

Amplitude –

Anaerobic digestion –

Angular acceleration –

Angular momentum –

Angular velocity –

Anion –

Annealing (metallurgy) –

Annihilation –

Anode –

ANSI –

Antigravity –

Antimatter –

Antineutron –

Antiparticle –

Antiproton –

Applied engineering –

Arc length –

Archimedes' principle –

Architecture –

Architectural engineering –

Area moment of inertia –

Arithmetic mean –

Arithmetic sequence –

Aromatic hydrocarbon –

Arrhenius equation –

Artificial intelligence –

Assembly language –

Atom –

Atomic mass –

Atomic number –

Atomic packing factor –

Atomic physics –

Atomic structure –

Audio frequency –

Austenitization –

Automation –

Automaton –

Autonomous vehicle -

Avogadro's number –

Azimuthal quantum number –

B

Bacteria –

Balance sheet –

Barometer –

Baryon –

Battery –

Base –

Baud –

Beam –

Beer–Lambert law –

Belt –

Belt friction –

Bending –

Benefit–cost analysis –

Bending moment –

Bernoulli differential equation –

Bernoulli's equation –

Bernoulli's principle –

Beta particle –

Binomial random variable –

Biocatalysis –

Biochemistry –

Biology –

Biomedical engineering –

Biomimetic -

Bionics –

Biophysics –

Block and tackle –

Boiling point –

Boiling-point elevation –

Boltzmann constant –

Boson –

Boyle's law –

Bravais lattice –

Brayton cycle –

Break-even analysis –

Brewster's angle –

Brittle –

Brownian motion –

Bulk modulus –

Buoyancy –

C

Calculus –

Capacitance –

Capacitive reactance –

Capillarity –

Carbonate –

Carnot cycle –

Cartesian coordinates –

Casting –

Cathode –

Cathode ray –

Cell membrane –

Cell nucleus –

Cell theory –

Center of gravity –

Center of mass –

Center of pressure –

Central force motion –

Central limit theorem –

Central processing unit –

Centripetal force –

Centroid –

Centrosome –

Chain reaction –

Change of base rule –

Charles's law –

Chemical bond –

Chemical compound –

Chemical equilibrium –

Chemical kinetics –

Chemical reaction –

Chemistry –

Chloride –

Chloroplast –

Chromate –

Chromosome –

Circle –

Circular motion –

Civil engineering –

Clausius–Clapeyron relation –

Clausius inequality –

Clausius theorem –

Coastal engineering -

Coefficient of performance –

Coefficient of variation –

Coherence –

Cohesion –

Compensation –

Compiler –

Compressive strength –

Computational fluid dynamics –

Computer –

Computer-aided design –

Computer-aided engineering –

Computer-aided manufacturing –

Computer engineering –

Computer science –

Concave lens –

Condensed matter physics –

Confidence interval –

Conjugate acid –

Conjugate base –

Construction engineering -

Construction surveying -

Continuum mechanics –

Control engineering -

Control systems engineering –

Convex lens –

Corrosion –

Cosmic rays –

Covalent bond –

Crookes tube –

Cryogenics –

Crystallization –

Crystallography –

Curvilinear motion –

Cyclotron –

D

Dalton's law –

Damped vibration –

Darcy–Weisbach equation –

DC motor –

Decibel –

Definite integral –

Deflection –

Deformation (engineering) –

Deformation (mechanics) –

Degrees of freedom –

Delta robot –

Delta-wye transformer –

Density –

Derivative –

Design engineering –

Dew point –

Differential pulley –

Dispersion –

Displacement (fluid) –

Displacement (vector) –

Distance –

Doppler effect –

Drag –

Ductility –

Dynamics –

Dyne –

E

Earthquake engineering -

Economics -

Elastic modulus -

Elasticity -

Electric charge -

Electric circuit -

Electric current -

Electric displacement field -

Electric generator -

Electric field -

Electric field gradient -

Electric motor -

Electric potential -

Electrical potential energy -

Electric power -

Electrical and electronics engineering -

Electrical conductor -

Electrical insulator -

Electrical network -

Electrical resistance -

Electricity -

Electrodynamics -

Electromagnet -

Electromagnetic field -

Electromagnetic radiation -

Electromechanics -

Electron -

Electron volt -

Electron pair -

Electronegativity -

Electronics -

Endothermic -

Energy -

Engine -

Engineering -

Engineering economics -

Engineering ethics -

Environmental engineering -

Engineering physics -

Enzyme -

Escape velocity -

Estimator -

Euler-Bernoulli beam equation -

Exothermic -

F

Falling bodies –

Farad –

Faraday –

Farad –

Faraday constant –

Fermat's principle –

Finite element method –

FIRST -

Fission –

Fluid –

Fluid mechanics –

Fluid –

Fluid physics –

Fluid statics –

Flywheel –

Focus –

Foot-pound –

Fracture toughness –

Fraunhofer lines –

Free fall –

Frequency modulation –

Freezing point –

Friction –

Function –

Fundamental frequency –

Fundamental interaction –

Fundamental theorem of calculus –

Fusion –

G

Galvanic cell –

Gamma rays –

Gas –

Geiger counter –

General relativity –

Geometric mean –

Geometry –

Geophysics –

Geotechnical engineering –

Gluon –

Graham's law of diffusion –

Gravitation –

Gravitational constant –

Gravitational energy –

Gravitational field –

Gravitational potential –

Gravitational wave –

Gravity –

Ground state –

H

Hadron –

Half-life –

Haptic –

Hardness –

Harmonic mean –

Heat –

Heat transfer –

Height above ground level –

Helmholtz free energy –

Henderson–Hasselbalch equation –

Henry's law –

Hertz –

Hoist –

Horsepower –

Huygens–Fresnel principle –

Hydraulic engineering -

Hydraulics –

Hydrocarbon –

I

Ice point –

Ideal gas –

Ideal gas constant –

Ideal gas law –

Indefinite integral –

Inertia –

Infrasound –

Integral –

Integral transform –

International System of Units –

Interval estimation –

Ion –

Ionic bond –

Ionization –

Impedance-

Inclined plane –

Industrial engineering –

Inorganic chemistry –

Isotope –

J

'Joule –

K

Kalman filter –

Kelvin –

Kinematics –

Kirchhoff's circuit laws –

Kirchhoff's equations –

L

Laminar flow –

Laplace transform –

LC circuit –

Lepton –

Lever –

L'Hôpital's rule -

Light –

Linear actuator -

Linear algebra –

Linear elasticity –

Liquid –

M

Mach number –

Machine –

Machine element –

Machine learning –

Maclaurin series –

Magnetic field –

Magnetism –

Manufacturing engineering –

Mass balance –

Mass density –

Mass moment of inertia –

Mass number –

Mass spectrometry –

Material properties –

Materials science –

Mathematical optimization –

Mathematical physics –

Mathematics –

Matrix –

Matter –

Maxwell's equations –

Mean –

Measures of central tendency –

Mechanical advantage –

Mechanical engineering –

Mechanical filter –

Mechanical wave –

Mechanics –

Mechanism –

Median –

Melting –

Melting point –

Meson –

Metal alloy –

Metallic bond –

Mid-range –

Midhinge –

Mining engineering –

Miller indices –

Mobile robot –

Mode –

Modulus of elasticity –

Molality –

Molar concentration –

Molar absorptivity –

Molar mass –

Molarity –

Molding –

Molecule –

Molecular physics –

Moment of inertia –

Multibody system –

Multidisciplinary design optimization –

Muon –

N

Nanoengineering –

Nanotechnology –

Navier–Stokes equations –

Neutrino –

Newtonian fluid –

nth root –

Nuclear binding energy –

Nuclear engineering –

Nuclear physics –

Nuclear potential energy –

Nuclear power –

O

Ohm –

Ohm's law –

Optics –

Organic chemistry –

Osmosis –

P

Parallel circuit –

Parity (mathematics) –

Parity (physics) –

Paraffin –

Particle accelerator –

Particle displacement –

Particle physics –

Pascal's Law –

Pendulum –

Petroleum engineering –

pH –

Phase (matter) –

Phase (waves) –

Phase equilibrium –

Photon –

Physical chemistry –

Physical quantity –

Physics –

Planck constant –

Plasma physics –

Plasticity –

Pneumatics –

Point estimation –

Polyphase system –

Power (electric) –

Power (physics) –

Power factor –

Pressure –

Probability –

Probability distribution –

Probability theory –

Psi particle –

Pulley –

Q

Quantum electrodynamics –

Quantum field theory –

Quantum mechanics –

Quantum physics –

Quark –

R

Raised floor –

Regelation –

Relative density –

Relative velocity –

Reliability engineering –

Reynolds number –

Rheology –

Rigid body –

Robotics –

Root-mean-square –

Root-mean-square speed –

Rotational energy –

Rotational speed –

S

Sanitary engineering –

Saturation (chemistry) –

Saturated compound –

Scalar (mathematics) –

Scalar (physics) –

Scalar multiplication –

Screw –

Series circuit –

Servo –

Servomechanism –

Shadow matter –

Shear strength –

Shear stress –

Shortwave radiation –

SI units –

Signal processing –

Simple machine –

Siphon –

Solid mechanics –

Solid-state physics –

Solid solution strengthening –

Solubility –

Sound –

Special relativity –

Specific heat –

Specific gravity –

Specific volume –

Specific weight –

Spontaneous combustion –

State of matter –

Statics –

Statistics –

Stefan–Boltzmann law –

Stewart platform

Stiffness –

Stoichiometry –

Strain –

Strain hardening –

Strength of materials –

Stress –

Stress-strain analysis –

Stress-strain curve –

Structural analysis –

Structural engineering –

Structural load –

Sublimation –

Subsumption architecture –

Surface tension –

Superconductor –

Superhard material –

Surveying -

T

Technical standard –

Temperature –

Tensile force –

Tensile modulus –

Tensile strength –

Tensile testing –

Tension member –

Thermal conduction –

Thermal equilibrium –

Thermal radiation –

Thermodynamics –

Theory of relativity –

Thévenin's theorem -

Three-phase –

Torque –

Torsional vibration –

Toughness –

Trajectory –

Transducer –

Transportation engineering -

Trigonometric functions –

Trigonometry –

Trimean –

Triple point –

Trouton's rule –

Truncated mean –

Truss –

Turbine –

Turbomachinery –

Turbulence –

U

Ultimate tensile strength –

Uncertainty principle –

Unicode –

Unit vector –

Unsaturated compound –

Urban engineering -

Utility frequency –

V

Vacuole –

Vacuum –

Valence –

Valence band –

Valence bond theory –

Valence electron –

Valence shell –

Valve –

van der Waals equation –

van der Waals force –

van 't Hoff equation –

van 't Hoff factor –

Variable capacitor –

Variable resistor –

Vector space –

Venturi effect –

Vibration –

Viscoelasticity –

Viscosity –

Volt-ampere –

Volt-ampere reactive –

Volta potential –

Voltage –

Volumetric flow rate –

von Mises yield criterion –

W

Wastewater engineering -

Watt –

Wave –

Wavelength –

Wedge –

Weighted mean –

Wet-bulb temperature –

Wheel and axle –

Winsorized mean –

X

X-coordinate –

Y

Y-coordinate –

Yield –

Young's modulus –

Z

Zero Defects –

Zeroth law of thermodynamics –