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mechanical (iou)



mechanical adjective & noun. LME.
[formed as MECHANIC: see -ICAL.]
A. adjective.
Concerned with or involving machinery or tools; involving manual work; of the nature of handicraft. LME.
H. Carpenter You must allow some good in mechanical science, such as the invention of printing. Daily Telegraph Three..jets were grounded by mechanical faults and an accident.
Of the nature of a machine or machines; acting, worked, or produced by a machine or mechanism. M16.
R. Ingalls A story about a girl who danced with a mechanical robot. F. Hoyle James Croll calculated these results without the aid of any mechanical or electronic calculator.
= MECHANIC adjective 3. Now rare. L16.
Of a person or action: performing or performed without thought; lacking spontaneity or originality; machine-like; automatic, routine. E17.
A. S. Neill When invention is left out, dancing becomes mechanical and dull. M. Esslin The mechanical exchange of platitudes that might as well be spoken into the wind.
a. Physical; of, pertaining to, or caused by physical properties, forces, agents, etc. Now freq. opp. chemical. E17.
J. E. Gordon Almost anything..added to a metal will affect its mechanical properties. B. W. Sparks It is convenient to differentiate between physical, or mechanical, weathering and chemical weathering.
b. Pertaining to mechanics as a science. Now rare. M17.
Concerned with or involving material objects or physical conditions, practical. M17.
Of a theory, an advocate of a theory: explaining phenomena in terms of physical properties only. M17.
Math. Of a curve: (drawable but) not expressible by an equation of finite and rational algebraical form. E18.
Special collocations: mechanical advantage the ratio of the force produced by a machine to the force applied to it. mechanical construction Geometry: of a curve as a whole, without the calculation of individual points. mechanical drawing: performed with the help of instruments, as compasses, rulers, etc. mechanical engineer an expert in mechanical engineering. mechanical engineering the branch of engineering that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of machines. mechanical equivalent of heat: see EQUIVALENT noun. mechanical mixture: see MIXTURE 6. mechanical power: see POWER noun 13. mechanical pulp: prepared without chemical degradation. mechanical stoker: see STOKER 1. mechanical twin Metallurgy a twinned crystal produced by mechanical deformation. mechanical zero the state or position in which a measuring instrument remains when the quantity which it measures is absent.
b. noun.
= MECHANIC noun 1. arch. L16.
In pl.
a. = MECHANICS 1. Only in E17.
b. = MECHANICS 2. E19.
Printing. A completed assembly of artwork and copy. M20.
mechani'cality noun the quality of being mechanical or like a machine L18.
mechanicali'zation noun the action, process, or fact of making or becoming mechanical E20.
mechanicalize verb trans. make mechanical E17.
mechanically adverb L16.
mechanicalness noun E17.