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mechanical

/muh-kan-i-kuhl/US // məˈkæn ɪ kəl //UK // (mɪˈkænɪkəl) //

机械,机械的,机械式,机械化

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having to do with machinery: a mechanical failure.
    • : being a machine; operated by machinery: a mechanical toy.
    • : caused by or derived from machinery: mechanical propulsion.
    • : using machine parts only.
    • : brought about by friction, abrasion, etc.: a mechanical bond between stones; mechanical erosion.
    • : pertaining to the design, use, understanding, etc., of tools and machinery: the mechanical trades; mechanical ability.
    • : acting or performed without spontaneity, spirit, individuality, etc.: a mechanical performance.
    • : habitual; routine; automatic: Practice that step until it becomes mechanical.
    • : belonging or pertaining to the subject matter of mechanics.
    • : pertaining to, or controlled or effected by, physical forces.
    • : explaining phenomena as due to mechanical action or the material forces of the universe.
    • : subordinating the spiritual to the material; materialistic.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a mechanical object, part, device, etc.
    • : Printing. a sheet of stiff paper on which has been pasted artwork and type proofs for making a printing plate; paste-up.
    • : Obsolete. a skilled manual laborer, as a carpenter or other artisan.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.done by machine; machinelike

Examples

  • The most widely used air purifier technology is what’s known as mechanical filtration.

  • You’ll also recall when the Tip-Top Canning Company got their first mechanical tomato harvester.

  • The contortions are essential for stable gliding, mechanical engineer Isaac Yeaton and colleagues report June 29 in Nature Physics.

  • While bits in a conventional computer can only adopt the values of 1 or 0, the qubits at the heart of a quantum computer can adopt multiple combinations of 1 or 0 at the same time thanks to the quantum mechanical phenomena of superposition.

  • Almost as soon as she had arrived at the hospital she needed help breathing with a mechanical ventilator, a sign of “how sick her lungs already were,” said Elizabeth Malsin, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

  • There were also crashes not due to either mechanical or human error but to a lack of warning of dangerous conditions.

  • He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.

  • The sounds are less mechanical and more lush, more concert hall than dance floor.

  • Crowd labor platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk operate with few rules and little protection for workers.

  • He's so white he's almost mock-white, and so are his jerky, long-necked, mechanical-man movements.

  • In the preceding chapter an examination has been made of the purely mechanical side of the era of machine production.

  • The approach of these mechanical monsters opens up vistas thronged with shadowy forebodings.

  • Go carefully over the film with an oil-immersion lens, using a mechanical stage if available.

  • The door to the back room opened, letting through a blend of talk and small mechanical noises.

  • In the days of mechanical action, couplers of any kind proved a source of trouble and added greatly to the weight of the touch.