mechanical: meaning and definitions

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What is mechanical?

What is mechanical?

  • Of or relating to machines or tools: mechanical skill.
  • Operated or produced by a mechanism or machine: a mechanical toy dog.
  • Of, relating to, or governed by mechanics.
  • Performed or performing in an impersonal or machinelike manner; automatic: a droning, mechanical delivery of the speech.
  • Relating to, produced by, or dominated by physical forces: the mechanical aspect of trumpet playing.
  • Philosophy Interpreting and explaining the phenomena of the universe by referring to causally determined material forces; mechanistic.
  • Of or relating to manual labor, its tools, and its skills.
  • Printing A layout consisting of type proofs, artwork, or both, exactly positioned and prepared for making an offset or other printing plate.

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