Found 2 items, similar to Mechanical.
English → English
adj 1: using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; “a
; “his smile was very mechanical”
“a mechanical toy”
2: relating to or concerned with machinery or tools;
; “mechanical design”
[syn: mechanically skillful
3: relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics;
“a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance”
“the mechanical pressure of a strong wind”
4: lacking thought or feeling [syn: mechanistic
English → English
, a. [From Mechanic
1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with,
mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the
quantitative relations of force and matter on a
macroscopic scale, as distinguished from mental
etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory;
especially, using only the interactions of solid parts
against each other; as mechanical brakes, in contrast to
[1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools;
made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical
precision; mechanical products.
We have also divers mechanical arts. --Bacon.
3. Done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion;
proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special
intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing;
mechanical verses; mechanical service.
4. Made and operated by interaction of forces without a
directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
5. Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate;
empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric
, effective power; useful work exerted, as
by a machine, in a definite time.
. See the Note under Engineering
(Mil.), the application of mechanical
appliances to the mounting, dismounting, and moving of
, the principles of mechanics applied
to the investigation of physical phenomena.
, certain simple instruments, such as the
lever and its modifications (the wheel and axle and the
pulley), the inclined plane with its modifications (the
screw and the wedge), which convert a small force acting
through a great space into a great force acting through a
small space, or vice versa, and are used separately or in
(Math.), a solution of a problem by any
art or contrivance not strictly geometrical, as by means
of the ruler and compasses, or other instruments.
A mechanic. [Obs.] --Shak.