an engineering profession concerned with the optimization of complex processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information and equipment.

plural of knob-end

Synonym of push the envelope

(UK, archaic) eggnog

plural of egg flip

In a precarious position, with one's recourses nearly exhausted. / In a state of excitement due to taking risks. / (with of) With figurative or temporal proximity to (an event, state of mind, etc.).

A coastal hamlet in Angus council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NO5836). / A town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. / An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Indiana, United States.

(physics) The predicted spontaneous creation of particle-antiparticle pairs in the presence of an extremely strong electric field.

(medicine) The emergence or reemergence of symptoms, often with greater severity, when a medicine prescribed to suppress the original symptoms is reduced or discontinued.

A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. / A census-designated place and community in Bradley County, Tennessee, United States, east of the city of Cleveland.