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US
/məˈkænɪkəɫ/
]
[ UK /mɪkˈænɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /mɪkˈænɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
a mechanical toy
his smile was very mechanical
a mechanical process -
relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
mechanical arts
a technical fault
mechanical skills
mechanical design -
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
How To Use mechanical In A Sentence
- Instead of talking about the mechanical superiority of their latest cars, manufacturers hired the sexiest, perkiest breasted young women they could find to writhe, lean and lick their lips next to their new products. Judith Acosta: How Marketers Capitalize On Your Fear: Confessions Of An Ex-Ad-Woman
- Neither Chout, turned down initially by Diaghilev, nor the piano concerto, rejected comprehensively by its muse Paul Wittgenstein the LPO's soloist was Leon Fleisher, quite banished that impression of mechanical note-spinning. LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
- Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.
- Granted, we have reams of remote sensing data from that first investigation, including the information from the detailed dissection of the spider biot done by Dr. Laura Ernst. But the cosmonauts brought home only one artifact, a tiny piece of some kind of biomechanical flower whose physical characteristics had already irreversibly changed before any of its mysteries could be understood, We have nothing else in the way of souvenirs from that first excursion. Rama Revisited
- In all stores adequate ventilation should be provided as an aid to temperature control with mechanical air conditioning if needed.
- A quartz crystal resonator depends on the piezo-electric effect to work. This effect converts a mechanical stress in a crystal to a voltage and vice versa.
- A dynamo converts mechanical energy from a moving electrical conductor into electromagnetic energy and thus generates current.
- The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.
- He is a mechanical fitter by trade and he hopes to return to working on the railways.
- The method includes the mechanical dissolution of the fiber parts containing thaumatin and, since the protein is very easy to dissolve in water, the aqueous extraction.
