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mechanism

/mek-uh-niz-uhm/US // ˈmɛk əˌnɪz əm //UK // (ˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm) //

机制,机构,机关,机理

Related Words

instrument仪表,文书,器械,文具tool工具,工具类system系统,制度,体系,系structure结构,结构图,结构性,结构上agency机构process过程,流程,工艺,进程technique技术,技巧,技法,技术operation操作,运作,营运,运转procedure程序,流程,程序上,程序性apparatus器械,器官,仪器,器具innards内脏,内脏部分,内饰,内设gadget小工具,小玩意,小配件,小玩意儿appliance用具,用器,用品,用电器contrivance伎俩,机关,巧计,巧思motor电机gimmick噱头,噱頭,技巧,绰号works作品,工程,工作,作业doohickey笨蛋,小玩意machinery机械,机器,机具,机械装置components组件,组件的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.
    • : the agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished.
    • : machinery or mechanical appliances in general.
    • : the structure or arrangement of parts of a machine or similar device, or of anything analogous.
    • : the mechanical part of something; any mechanical device: the mechanism of a clock.
    • : routine methods or procedures; mechanics: the mechanism of government.
    • : mechanical execution, as in painting or music; technique.
    • : the theory that everything in the universe is produced by matter in motion; materialism.Compare dynamism, vitalism.
    • : Philosophy. the view that all natural processes are explicable in terms of classical mechanics. the view that all biological processes may be described in physicochemical terms.
    • : Psychoanalysis. the habitual operation and interaction of psychological forces within an individual that assist in interpreting or dealing with the physical or psychological environment.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounmachine, device
Forms: mechanisms
Synonyms
instrument仪表,文书,器械,文具structure结构,结构图,结构性,结构上system系统,制度,体系,系tool工具,工具类apparatus器械,器官,仪器,器具appliance用具,用器,用品,用电器components组件,组件的contrivance伎俩,机关,巧计,巧思doohickey笨蛋,小玩意gadget小工具,小玩意,小配件,小玩意儿gimmick噱头,噱頭,技巧,绰号innards内脏,内脏部分,内饰,内设machinery机械,机器,机具,机械装置motor电机workings运作,工作,工作场所,运作情况works作品,工程,工作,作业black box黑匣子,黑盒子,黑盒,黑箱
nounmeans, method
Forms: mechanisms
Synonyms
agency机构operation操作,运作,营运,运转procedure程序,流程,程序上,程序性process过程,流程,工艺,进程system系统,制度,体系,系technique技术,技巧,技法,技术execution执行,处决,执行死刑,处刑functioning运作,职能,运转,运作情况medium介质,媒介,中型,中等performance业绩,性能,表现,绩效workings运作,工作,工作场所,运作情况

Examples

  • Europe’s busiest airport hub, London Heathrow, is working on a testing mechanism and industry executives are lobbying the British government to replace quarantines with virus tests as a means of screening arriving travelers from high-risk countries.

  • One is that we have to ensure that voting mechanisms are in place.

  • These are the types of mechanisms that explain why you remember salient events.

  • This makes it unusual, as it will allow physicists to study this new binding mechanism in detail.

  • By shutting down its brain and any sensory channels, they could determine whether a mechanism in the larvae generated Lévy walks in the absence of information about the world.

  • Farrell issued a ticket to an 18-year-old shipyard worker for speeding and an improper exhaust mechanism, according to the TP.

  • Franck has not, as they say, spelled out a mechanism by which this could happen.

  • The “tapping” mechanism is similar, like tapping someone on the shoulder via the Internet.

  • I mean, I recognize the mechanism; I know what it is as opposed to everything else.

  • It is also used as a mechanism of revenge after a couple parts ways.

  • The wheezy, crazy mechanism of the car went to bits in unexpected places.

  • In the same way the technical form and mechanism of production were presumed to respond to an automatic stimulus.

  • The attempt at social change threatens a social revolution in which the whole elaborate mechanism would burst into fragments.

  • The marvelous improvements in mechanism and tone production and control in 1886 to 1913 by Robt.

  • The reader may judge of the perfection of mechanism in this plain-looking engine from the fact that a pole, with 150 lbs.

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