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mechanical

[muh-kan-i-kuhl]

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having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.

being a machine; operated by machinery: a mechanical toy.

caused by or derived from machinery: mechanical propulsion.

using machine parts only.

brought about by friction, abrasion, etc.: a mechanical bond between stones; mechanical erosion.

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pertaining to the design, use, understanding, etc., of tools and machinery: the mechanical trades; mechanical ability.

acting or performed without spontaneity, spirit, individuality, etc.: a mechanical performance.

habitual; routine; automatic: Practice that step until it becomes mechanical.

belonging or pertaining to the subject matter of mechanics.

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pertaining to, or controlled or effected by, physical forces.

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(of a philosopher or philosophical theory) explaining phenomena as due to mechanical action or the material forces of the universe.

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subordinating the spiritual to the material; materialistic.

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noun

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a mechanical object, part, device, etc.

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Printing. a sheet of stiff paper on which has been pasted artwork and type proofs for making a printing plate; paste-up.

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Obsolete. a skilled manual laborer, as a carpenter or other artisan.

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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English, equivalent to mechanic mechanical + -al¹; see mechanic

Related forms

me·chan·i·cal·ly, adverb

me·chan·i·cal·ness, me·chan·i·cal·i·ty, noun

non·me·chan·i·cal, adjective

non·me·chan·i·cal·ly, adverb

non·me·chan·i·cal·ness, noun

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qua·si-me·chan·i·cal, adjective

qua·si-me·chan·i·cal·ly, adverb

sem·i·me·chan·i·cal, adjective

su·per·me·chan·i·cal, adjective

su·per·me·chan·i·cal·ly, adverb

un·me·chan·i·cal, adjective

un·me·chan·i·cal·ly, adverb

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Example Sentences

One of the five mechanical cranes has delivered up the bin to a small loading dock.

By all accounts, the battlefield of the future could resemble nothing more than a swarm of mechanical locusts.

Weathering is the mechanical and chemical hammer that breaks down and sculpts the rocks.

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One of the five mechanical cranes has delivered up the bin to a small loading dock.

By all accounts, the battlefield of the future could resemble nothing more than a swarm of mechanical locusts.

Weathering is the mechanical and chemical hammer that breaks down and sculpts the rocks.

At this temperature, the paddle slipped into its quantum mechanical ground state.

Approaching the building a muffled thwack-thwack-thwack mechanical sound created by power looms can be heard.

The simple two-cycle kinds have more efficient engines and require less mechanical know-how to stay in running order.

Microsoft is replacing its mechanical mouse with a more durable, optical version.

Rohrman, who earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical.

Mechanical removal also leaves the problem of disposing of the removed plants.

It then determines what the monkey is trying to do and translates it into movement of the mechanical arm.

Mechanical and electro-mechanical computers certainly came first.

They would go up using a mechanical ascender, a device that actually clips onto the rope.

He loves everything to do with our fine mechanical friends.

Calloway has had a fascination with engineering and all things mechanical.

It has also provided details about the mechanical systems used in its centres, including power consumption and ventilation.

The kinetic energy of the flowing river turns the wheel and is converted into mechanical energy that runs the mill.

The machine is designed to mimic the calming effect of a cow's holding pen by giving her a mechanical hug.

These battery-driven, mechanical devices produce nothing less than the call of the wild.

Purely mechanical toys evolved into electromechanical toys and gave birth to the digital toy revolution.

Indeed, the treatments for sleep apnea are mechanical.

Storage media can become degraded and unreadable due to environmental conditions, mechanical wear, and other factors.

In effect the generator was forced to fight the raw mechanical power of the rest of the grid, and lost.

Life-size mechanical dolls are being used to train dentists.

The answer is a mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus.

German mechanical engineers are brilliant at improving existing inventions.

Scientists have developed a mechanical version of the leech that removes blood and promotes wound healing.

It is expensive and hazardous sending workers out to off-shore wind farms for repairs when there is a mechanical failure.

Howe's machine faded out the mechanical process of sewing and reduced the amount of time it took to create clothing.

They also opted for an oval-shaped capacitive touch home button, rather than a mechanical button.

Mechanical mixers fitted between the booms and the hull will increase the wool's absorptive capacity.

Scenes with a mechanical shark had to be cut, because it did not look believable enough.

He's less interested in solving the problem-in reducing it to some underlying, mechanical process-than in celebrating it.

We also see several vehicles in the shop having major mechanical problems from using the ethanol blend.

Building mechanical legs that work right has been a brutal task.

The transmission and steering are entirely electronic, which removes the need for clunky mechanical parts.

The wind turns the blades, which turns a crankshaft that creates mechanical power.

Scientists have designed a single-molecule device capable of converting light into mechanical energy, according to a new report.

So, the utilitarian-inspired mechanical horse instead became a fancy toy for aristocrats and the rising bourgeoisie.

The scientists attached their mechanical antenna to a commercially available wheeled robot.

Finally, some na¿ve apes were presented with tools but not the mechanical apparatus.

Digital media players transformation information into action: mechanical watches transform action into information.

It has mechanical arms that can grab and dig as well as water jets and suction pipes to gently clear away mud and sand.

It seems that scientists have been struggling forever to make a mechanical heart that really works.

Earlier mechanical hearts had wires and tubes that stuck out of the chest and connected to a power source.

The space station's mechanical arm is visible at the far right in the photo above.

It has been the focus of much research because of its exceptional electrical, mechanical and optical properties.

The key environmental change is a mechanical force known as fluid shear, or the motion of fluid around a cell.

The rubbery surface allows the applied mechanical stress of footsteps to produce piezoelectricity.

Do your part to conserve trees and ask your parents to buy recycled or mechanical pencils.

And getting that fresh viewpoint is often rather mechanical.

In space, a mechanical force known as fluid shear-the motion of fluid around a cell-slows down.

Technology is allowing manufacturers to make smaller, lighter luxury watches with more ingenious mechanical features.

Inventors are coming up with many advertising novelties: small mechanical toys made by various companies to.

Biological filters, which combine mechanical and bacterial.

Wicks, a mechanical engineer, has designed a gas-powered air-conditioner that he said could cut.

The cabin's mechanical systems are in the garage, which keeps the main living.

Thanks to modern mechanical prosthetics, complete with hydraulics and microprocessors, missing a limb needn't mean missing much.

Pierce, a mechanical and aerospace engineering major.

Harris to keep all of the structure's mechanical systems in a single area and.

Military researchers are building mechanical suits that provide superstrength and inhuman endurance.

He had continued as an active contributor and consultant in the field of mechanical engineering.

We work on mechanical skills, but in context, addressing issues as they come up in students' actual papers.

What happens is the fluid that's sprayed into each fibre of the yarn starts to stiffen up and resist that mechanical strain.

Aid climbing is more or less purely mechanical and does not require a great deal of strength or technique.

Before electronic calculators, the mechanical slide rule dominated scientific and engineering computation.

The airframe must provide a solid mechanical ground for the actuators and transmission.

The last thing job candidates need to do is spend money they do not have on mechanical thank-you notes and postage.

Potential explanations range from the mechanical to the clandestine.

The actuators power the thorax at mechanical resonance.

It's not a mechanical process but an organic develoment of culture that morphs in response to its context.

Hopson was the first plantation to convert completely to the mechanical cotton pickers.

The last thing job candidates need to do is spend time and money they do not have on mechanical thank you notes and postage.

Wind turbines convert kinetic energy from wind into electrical, thermal, or mechanical energy.

He further notes that the technique could one day be used to design bonds with tailored mechanical properties.

The mechanical arm also functions more naturally than previous models.

The root systems of plants and the mechanical and chemical effects of water percolating through bedrock create new soil layers.

Artificial muscles already help human eyes blink, robotic fish swim and mechanical arms in space replace solar panels.

It's an electronic shifting system that forgoes mechanical cable for electronic impulses and servomotors.

For example, all electrons are spinning in a quantum mechanical way.

Recent discoveries have shown that mechanical tension between neurons creates the hills and valleys of the cortex.

Thermoelectric devices are longer lasting and tougher than mechanical refrigerators.

Some fancy that they will make education a cold, mechanical process.

The same can not be said about a mechanical tree made of mechanical devices used to produce electric charge.

The mechanical arms that have long been a mainstay of manufacturing are merely complex tools in comparison.

But now all of her worries about their health and well-being were focused on one wildly popular mechanical object: the bicycle.

Each of the robots of interest moves on tracks and features a mechanical hand that can be used to lift and manipulate objects.

Because of the snow and thick undergrowth the den was impossible to see, and a mechanical harvester had backed right up to it.

But that has not stopped mechanical engineers at the.

Cahill, who has taken a great interest in what may be termed the mechanical improvement of baseball playing.

But mechanical issues shut down the show while the astronauts were en route to the launch pad.

Not having to carry about a large energy store and the means to convert that into useful mechanical energy saves a lot of weight.

First her eyes latch onto mine, then her head swings around in a mechanical two-step.

We must progress, however, the human race is about mechanical progress without matching it with philosophical progress.

Mechanical adhesion occurs when the adhesive flows into the texture of the substrate.

Think of our arms as two mechanical limbs hung from a ball and socket joint.

The history of the improvement of every mechanical invention or device is the history of its simplification.

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World English Dictionary

mechanical (mɪˈkænɪk^əl)

—*adj*
1.	made, performed, or operated by or as if by a machine or machinery: a mechanical process
2.	concerned with machines or machinery
3.	relating to or controlled or operated by physical forces
4.	of or concerned with mechanics
5.	(of a gesture, etc) automatic; lacking thought, feeling, etc
6.	philosophy accounting for phenomena by physically determining forces
7.	(of paper, such as newsprint) made from pulp that has been mechanically ground and contains impurities

—n
8.	printing another name for camera-ready copy
9.	archaic another word for mechanic

me'chanicalism

—n

me'chanically

—*adv*

me'chanicalness

—n

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Word Origin & History

mechanical

early 15c., "of or pertaining to machines," from mechanic; of persons or human actions, "resembling machines, automatic" it is from c.1600. Related: Mechanically.

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Medical Dictionary

mechanical me·chan·i·cal (mĭ-kān'ĭ-kəl)
adj.

Operated or produced by a mechanism or machine.
Relating to, produced by, or dominated by physical forces.
Interpreting and explaining the phenomena of the universe by referring to causally determined material forces; mechanistic.

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