Mechanic(a.) The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Mechanic(a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.
Mechanic(a.) Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.
Mechanic(a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.
Mechanic(a.) Base.
Mechanical(a.) Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
Mechanical(a.) 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.
Mechanical(a.) 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.
Mechanical(a.) Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
Mechanical(a.) Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under Geometric.
Mechanical(n.) A mechanic.
Mechanically(adv.) In a mechanical manner.
Mechanics(n.) That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.
Mechanism(n.) The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
Mechanism(n.) Mechanical operation or action.
Mechanism(n.) An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
Mechanize(v. t.) To cause to be mechanical.
Mechanized(imp. & p. p.) of Mechanize
Mechanizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mechanize
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