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Definition: Bioengineering |
BioengineeringNoun1. The branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Agriculture | See genetic engineering. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | A branch of science and technology concerned with the use of living plants for the protection of soil against erosion and the stabilization of streambanks and slopes. Source: European Union. (references) |
Medicine | The application of engineering principles to the solution of biological problems, for example, remote-handling devices, life-support systems, controls, and displays. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BioengineeringSynonyms: biotechnology (n), ergonomics (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Bioengineering |
| Specialty definitions using "bioengineering": Chromosomes, Bacterial Artificial ♦ soil bioengineering. (references) |
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Health | This conference brought together specialists in auditory anatomy and physiology, otolaryngology, audiology, aural rehabilitation, education, speech-language pathology, bioengineering, and other related disciplines as well as representatives from the public. (references) | |
Scientists are working to develop less harmful drugs and better methods of transplanting beta cells to prevent rejection by the body. Using techniques of bioengineering, researchers are also trying to create artificial beta cells that secrete insulin in response to increased glucose levels in the blood. (references) | ||
Business | There are some local universities specializing in the study of bioengineering, however, it seems as if there are not enough practicing engineers to work in the field. (references) | |
It will pool the IRTI's microelectronic and semiconductor technical and research resources with R&D operations at American BioScience to jointly develop new technologies for bioengineering chips and other state-of-the-art products in Taiwan. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Bioengineering" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Bioengineering" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 75% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 4 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "bioengineering": soil bioengineering. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bioengineering | 79 |
biotechnology and bioengineering | 15 |
bioengineering description | 8 |
bioengineering job | 5 |
bioengineering biotechnology journal | 4 |
bioengineering solution | 3 |
bioengineering salary | 3 |
bioengineering food | 3 |
bioengineering ucsd | 2 |
american bioengineering oriental | 2 |
soil bioengineering | 2 |
bioengineering university washington | 2 |
bioengineering primer | 2 |
bioengineering degree | 2 |
bioengineering company | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bioengineering"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | ç"Ÿç‰©å·¥è‰ºå¦ (biotechnology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | bioteknologi (bio-engineering, biotechnology), bioteknik (biotechnics, biotechnology). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | biotechnologie (bio-engineering, biotechnics, biotechnology), bio-mechanica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bio-ingénierie (bio-engineering), recherches biomécaniques, ingénierie biologique (bio-engineering), génie végétal (soil bioengineering), génie biologique (soil bioengineering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Biotechnologie (bio-engineering, biotechnology), biotechnik (biotechnics, biotechnology), bioengineering, Ingenieurbiologie (soil bioengineering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιομηχανολογία (biomechanics), εμβιομηχανική (biomechanics). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bioingegneria (bio-engineering, soil bioengineering), ingegneria naturalistica (soil bioengineering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ioengineeringbay biotecnologia (bio-engineering, biotechnology), bioengenharia. (various references) bioingenierÃa (bio-engineering). (various references) biyoteknik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "bioengineering": bioengineerings. (additional references) | |
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"Bioengineering" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bioeengineering, bioengeneering, bioengieering, ioengineering. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bioengineering" (pronounced bī'ōe'njuni"ring) |
| 9 | -e' n j u n i" r i ng | engineering, reengineering. |
| 6 | -u n i" r i ng | domineering, electioneering, pioneering. |
| 5 | -n i" r i ng | nearing, sneering. |
| 4 | -i" r i ng | adhering, appearing, cheering, clearing, disappearing, earring, fearing, gearing, hearing, interfering, overhearing, premiering, profiteering, racketeering, rearing, rehearing, searing, shearing, smearing, Spearing, steering, veering, volunteering. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, admiring, adoring, airing, alluring, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, blaring, boring, caring, chairing, charring, childbearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, deploring, despairing, during, endearing, enduring, ensuring, expiring, exploring, firing, flaring, flooring, glaring, Goring, haring, herring, hiring, ignoring, impairing, imploring, inspiring, insuring, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, obscuring, outpouring, overbearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, poring, pouring, preparing, procuring, quiring, reassuring, rehiring, repairing, restoring, retiring, roaring, scaring, scarring, scoring, securing, sharing, shoring, snaring, snoring, soaring, sparing, sparring, squaring, staring, starring, stevedoring, storing, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, underscoring, uninspiring, unsparing, Waring, warring, wearing, wiring. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-g-g-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-r" | |
-3 letters: bioengineer, engineering, rebeginning. | |
-5 letters: beginning. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-e-e-g-g-i-i-i-n-n-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bioengineerings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 6F 65 6E 67 69 6E 65 65 72 69 6E 67 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01101111 01100101 01101110 01100111 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100101 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i o e n g i n e e r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 006F 0065 006E 0067 0069 006E 0065 0065 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3675817180737580717184758073 |
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