Mechanical

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  nonhuman \nonhuman\ adj.
     not human. Opposite of {human}. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid,
     anthropoidal, apelike}; {bloodless}; {dehumanized, unhuman};
     {grotesque, monstrous, unnatural}; {mechanical}]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mechanical \Me*chan"ic*al\, n.
     A mechanic. [Obs.] --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mechanical \Me*chan"ic*al\, a. [From {Mechanic}, a.]
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     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},
        {vital}, {chemical}, {electrical}, {electronic}, {atomic}
        etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory;
        especially, using only the interactions of solid parts
        against each other; as mechanical brakes, in contrast to
        {hydraulic} brakes.
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     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.
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              We have also divers mechanical arts.  --Bacon.
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     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.
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     4. Made and operated by interaction of forces without a
        directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
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     5. Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate;
        empirical. See the 2d Note under {Geometric}.
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     {Mechanical effect}, effective power; useful work exerted, as
        by a machine, in a definite time.
  
     {Mechanical engineering}. See the Note under {Engineering}.
        
  
     {Mechanical maneuvers} (Mil.), the application of mechanical
        appliances to the mounting, dismounting, and moving of
        artillery. --Farrow.
  
     {Mechanical philosophy}, the principles of mechanics applied
        to the investigation of physical phenomena.
  
     {Mechanical powers}, 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
        combination.
  
     {Mechanical solution} (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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mechanical
       adj 1: using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; "a
              mechanical process"; "his smile was very mechanical";
              "a mechanical toy" [ant: {nonmechanical}]
       2: relating to or concerned with machinery or tools;
          "mechanical arts"; "mechanical design"; "mechanical
          skills" [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  89 Moby Thesaurus words for "mechanical":
     accordant, aeromechanical, alike, automated, automatic, balanced,
     biomechanical, blind, cold, colorless, compulsive, conditioned,
     consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, dead,
     distant, equable, equal, even, flat, forced, habitual, homogeneous,
     immutable, impersonal, impulsive, inanimate, insensible,
     instinctive, invariable, involuntary, level, lifeless, locomotive,
     locomotor, machinal, machine-made, machinelike, matter-of-fact,
     measured, mechanistic, mechanized, methodic, monolithic,
     of a piece, ordered, orderly, perfunctory, persistent,
     power-driven, powered, reflex, reflexive, regular, ritualistic,
     robotlike, routine, smooth, spiritless, stable, steadfast, steady,
     systematic, unanimated, unartistic, unbroken, unchangeable,
     unchanged, unchanging, unconscious, undeviating, undifferentiated,
     undiversified, unemotional, unfeeling, uniform, uninspired,
     unintentional, unruffled, unthinking, unvaried, unvarying,
     unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, zoomechanical