noun
Meaning 1
Someone who specializes in electrical engineering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: electroengineer
Antonyms: none provided
Phrase guide
electrical engineer
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noun
Meaning 2
a person trained in practical applications of the theory of electricity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: engineer, applied scientist, technologist
Narrower terms: Bush, Vannevar Bush, De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio, Dolby, Ray M. Dolby, Heaviside, Oliver Heaviside, Kennelly, A. E. Kennelly, Arthur Edwin Kennelly, Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi, Siemens, Ernst Werner von Siemens, Sinclair, Clive Sinclair, Sir Clive Marles Sinclair, Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Tesla, Nikola Tesla, Thomson, Elihu Thomson
History
Etymology
Back-formation from electrical engineering.
Across languages
Translations
29 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: афымцатехник (afəmcatʼexnikʼ) — Translations
- Bulgarian: електроинжене́р (elektroinženér) — Translations
- Catalan: electrotècnic — Translations
- Catalan: electrotècnica — Translations
- Danish: elektrotekniker — Translations
- Danish: elektroingeniør — Translations
- Faroese: ravmagnsverkfrøðingur — Translations
- Finnish: sähköinsinööri — Translations
- French: ingénieur électricien — Translations
- Galician: enxeñeiro eléctrico — Translations
- German: Elektroingenieur — Translations
- Greek: ηλεκτρολόγος μηχανικός (ilektrológos michanikós) — Translations
- Hebrew: מְהַנְדֵּס חַשְׁמַל (mehándes khashmál) — Translations
- Hebrew: מְהַנְדֶּסֶת חַשְׁמַל (mehandéset khashmál) — Translations
- Hebrew: מְהַנְדְּסֵי חַשְׁמַל (mehandeséi khashmál) — Translations
- Hebrew: מְהַנְדְּסוֹת חַשְׁמַל (mehandesót khashmál) — Translations
- Hindi: विद्युत अभियंता (vidyut abhiyantā) — Translations
- Hungarian: villamosmérnök — Translations
- Hungarian: elektromérnök — Translations
- Icelandic: rafmagnsverkfræðingur — Translations
- Indonesian: insinyur listrik — Translations
- Irish: innealtóir leictreach — Translations
- Irish: innealtóir leictreachais — Translations
- Macedonian: електроинжене́р (elektroinženér) — Translations
- Norwegian Bokmål: elektroingeniør — Translations
- Norwegian Nynorsk: elektroingeniør — Translations
- Portuguese: engenheiro elétrico — Translations
- Russian: инженер-электрик (inžener-elektrik) — Translations
- Spanish: ingeniero eléctrico — Translations