The act of equipping with an engine or engines; the process of installing or operating an engine.
From engin (archaic form of engine) plus the gerund suffix -ing. This creates a noun describing the action or process related to engines.
As engines became more common, the word 'engining' captured that moment of transformation when people had to learn entirely new vocabulary for mechanical processes!
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