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[ adjective ] using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
Examples "a mechanical process" "his smile was very mechanical" "a mechanical toy" Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)That 's why the FDA , the American_Medical_Association ( AMA ) , and the National_Better_Business_Bureau ( BBB ) have estimated the toll of mechanical quackery to be a substantial portion of the $ 610 million or_so paid to medical charlatans annually . (Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)The washing process whereby soils are removed consists basically of applying mechanical action to loosen the dirt particles and dried matter in the presence of water which helps to float off the debris and acts , to some extent , as a dissolving and solvating agent . Then during washing , the greasy soil rolls back at the edges so that emulsified droplets can disengage themselves from the sorbed oil mass , with the aid of mechanical action , and enter the aqueous phase . The crude picture of the detergency process thus_far developed can be represented as : * * f The influence of mechanical action on the particles of free soil may be compared to that of kinetic_energy on a molecular scale . (A. N. Nagaraj and L. M. Black, "Localization of...)Wound_tumor_virus is a leafhopper transmitted virus not easily transmissible by mechanical inoculation ( Black , 1944 ; Brakke et_al. , 1954 ) . Related terms nonmechanical automatic mechanized mechanistic mechanised windup mechanic |
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[ adjective ] relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
Synonyms Examples "mechanical arts" "mechanical design" "mechanical skills" Used in print (Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)In that apparently simple shift Porter opened the way to the sensitive use of the camera as an instrument of art as_well_as a mechanical recording device . (Ross E. McKinney and Howard Edde, "Aerated...)One of the important aspects of_this study was to determine the oxygen transfer relationships of the mechanical aerator . |
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[ adjective ] relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics
Examples "a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance" "the mechanical pressure of a strong wind" Used in print (Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)This is interesting for it combines both the thermodynamic concept of a minimum Gibbs function for equilibrium and minimum mechanical potential_energy for equilibrium . Related terms |
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