mechanistically.html - n.
a skilled worker, esp. one who makes or uses or repairs machinery. [ME (orig. as adj.) f. OF mecanique or L mechanicus f. Gk mekhanikos (as MACHINE)]

mechanistically.html - adj.
1 of or relating to machines or mechanisms.
2 working or produced by machinery.
3 (of a person or action) like a machine; automatic; lacking originality.
4 a (of an agency, principle, etc.) belonging to mechanics. b (of a theory etc.) explaining phenomena by the assumption of mechanical action.
5 of or relating to mechanics as a science.

mechanical advantage the ratio of exerted to applied force in a machine. mechanical drawing a scale drawing of machinery etc. done with precision instruments. mechanical engineer a person skilled in the branch of engineering dealing with the design, construction, and repair of machines. mechanical equivalent of heat the conversion factor between heat energy and mechanical energy.

mechanicalism n. (in sense 4). mechanically adv. mechanicalness n. [ME f. L mechanicus (as MECHANIC)]

mechanistically.html - n.
a person skilled in constructing machinery.

mechanistically.html - n.pl. (usu. treated as sing.)
1 the branch of applied mathematics dealing with motion and tendencies to motion.
2 the science of machinery.
3 the method of construction or routine operation of a thing.

mechanistically.html - n.
1 the structure or adaptation of parts of a machine.
2 a system of mutually adapted parts working together in or as in a machine.
3 the mode of operation of a process.
4 Art mechanical execution; technique.
5 Philos. the doctrine that all natural phenomena, including life, allow mechanical explanation by physics and chemistry. [mod.L mechanismus f. Gk (as MACHINE)]

mechanistically.html - n.
1 a mechanician.
2 an expert in mechanics.
3 Philos. a person who holds the doctrine of mechanism.

mechanistic adj. mechanistically adv.