Nuclear Engineering - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nuclear engineeringnuclear engineering
The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction and operation of nuclear reactors...
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device
Nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device, means any nuclear weapon or other nuclear explosive device as may be determined by the Central Government, whose determination in the matter shall be final [Weapons of Mass Destruction and their Delivery Systems (Prohibitions of Unlawful Activities Act, 2005 (21 of 2005), s. 4(b)]...
Nuclear
of pertaining to or using nuclear weapons a nuclear exchange ie a reciprocal bombardment by nuclear weapons...
nuclear war
A war in which nuclear weapons are used by both sides As generally used the term assumes major use of nuclear weapons by at least two opposing warring states As of 1999 no nuclear war has occurred...
nuclear powered submarine
A submarine for which the motive power comes from the energy generated by a nuclear reactor Same as nuclear submarine...
Engine
Engine. As to malicious injuries to engines and machinery, see Malicious Damage Act, 1861, ss. 11, 14, 15; and as to placing wood, etc., on any railway, with intent to obstruct or overthrow any engine, see s. 35. The use of locomotive engines on railways is authorized by the Railways Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845, s. 86, and regulated by s. 116 of that Act. The Railway Fires Act, 1905, as amended by the Railway Fires Act (1905) Amendment Act, 1923, gives compensation for damage by fires caused by sparks or cinders from railway engines; see Martin v. G.E. Railway, (1912) 2 KB 406; A.-G. v. G.W. Railway, (1924) 2 KB 1. See TRACTION ENGINE and SMOKE....
Engineer
A person skilled in the principles and practice of any branch of engineering as a civil engineer an electronic engineer a chemical engineer See under Engineering n...
Civil Engineer
Civil Engineer. In 1923 the Institution of Civil Engineers was granted a supplemental Royal Charter which gives members and associate members an exclusive right to describe themselves as 'Chartered Civil Engineers.' The term 'engineer' was originally understood to mean military engineer; the word 'civil' was therefore applied to distinguish the institution....
Engineer Corps
In the United States army the Corps of Engineers a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general whose title is Chief of Engineers It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense the improvement of rivers and harbors the construction of lighthouses etc and in time of war supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field...
Engineering
Originally the art of managing engines in its modern and extended sense the art and science by which the properties of matter are made useful to man whether in structures machines chemical substances or living organisms the occupation and work of an engineer In the modern sense the application of mathematics or systematic knowledge beyond the routine skills of practise for the design of any complex system which performs useful functions may be considered as engineering including such abstract tasks as designing software software engineering...
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