Term: industrial engineering: the branch of engineering that deals with the creation and management of systems that integrate people and materials and energy in productive ways
Candidate hypernym: engineering: the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems → 1
Candidate hypernym: lion's foot: common perennial herb widely distributed in the southern and eastern United States having drooping clusters of pinkish flowers and thick basal leaves suggesting a lion's foot in shape; sometimes placed in genus Prenanthes → 0
Candidate hypernym: drawback: the quality of being a hindrance → 0
Candidate hypernym: half-century: a period of 50 years → 0
Candidate hypernym: common fennel: strongly aromatic with a smell of aniseed; leaves and seeds used for seasoning → 0
Candidate hypernym: purchase: a means of exerting influence or gaining advantage → 0
Candidate hypernym: cobble: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads → 0
Candidate hypernym: guinea worm disease: a painful and debilitating infestation contracted by drinking stagnant water contaminated with Guinea worm larvae that can mature inside a human's abdomen until the worm emerges through a painful blister in the person's skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: greenness: the state of not being ripe → 0
Candidate hypernym: bossism: domination of a political organization by a party boss → 0
Candidate hypernym: pneumonic plague: a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever → 0