routine methods or procedures; mechanics: the mechanism of government.
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mechanical execution, as in painting or music; technique.
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the theory that everything in the universe is produced by matter in motion; materialism. Compare dynamism(def. 1), vitalism(def. 1).
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Philosophy.
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the view that all natural processes are explicable in terms of Newtonian mechanics.
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the view that all biological processes may be described in physicochemical terms.
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Psychoanalysis. the habitual operation and interaction of psychological forces within an individual that assist in interpreting or dealing with the physical or psychological environment.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.