| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| 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. |
mechanical (mɪˈkænɪkəl) ![]() | |
| —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 | |
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.