This glossary of civil engineering terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts pertaining specifically to civil engineering, its sub-disciplines, and related fields.
For a more general overview of concepts within engineering as a whole, see Glossary of engineering.
Also Abrams' water-cement ratio law.
[3]Also decadic absorbance.Also paraffin.Also non-crystalline solid.Also building engineering or architecture engineering.Also statement of financial position.Also sometimes capillarity, capillary motion, capillary effect, or wicking.Also called Dalton's law of partial pressures.Also called engineering science.Also house wrap.Also ultimate strength or simply tensile strength (TS).