mechanical
Pronunciation: /məˈkænɪkəl/
The English word “mechanical” has 16 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Done by machine.
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
- Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- Handy with machines.
- Relating to the mechanics of a game.
noun
- Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals.
- A robot or mechanical creature.
- A mechanical engineer.
- An instance of equipment failure.
- A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
- A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.
Etymology
From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.
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