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How to spell engineering

What it means: The application of science and mathematics to solve problems.

In a sentence: My brother dreams of a career in engineering to build robots. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for double e. Often misspelled as engeneering or engeneering.

Same family: engineer, engineered, reengineering, engineeringly, engineering-based. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Engineering comes from the word 'engineer', which originally meant someone who built or operated war machines like catapults. Over time, the meaning expanded to anyone who uses scientific knowledge to design and build practical things.

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