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mechanization

/mek-uh-nahy-zey-shuhn/US // ˌmɛk ə naɪˈzeɪ ʃən //

机械化

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or process of causing a task to be performed or operated by machinery: The mechanization of cinnamon processing has also solved health and sanitation issues plaguing the industry.
    • : the act or process of introducing machines into an industry or other area of activity in order to replace human labor: Hay loaders are another example of the increasing mechanization of agriculture.
    • : the act or process of subordinating the spiritual to the material, or of explaining something totally in terms of material forces: There is a vague unease with the artificiality of technology, with its imperialistic mechanization of a world from which we ourselves feel strangely alien.

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Examples

  • This happened in part because of improvements in mechanization, including the gas tractor.

  • When mechanization overtakes basic human traits, people lose the ability to reproduce.

  • In terms of how much mechanization has changed our work, it’s been like going from the Model T to the Tesla, but in a much shorter time.

  • The workers got a wage increase after the strike, but mechanization of the process ended up eliminating many laborers’ jobs.

  • I think the century of the self has provided us with this: the mechanization of celebrity, the artist as a public collage.

  • The mechanization of society leads, inevitably, to a militant society.

  • The mechanization of economics had become a common possession for everybody.

  • I have so greatly ventured because I have at length solved the final step in the mechanization of the world.

  • Work was being done by a puzzling combination of mechanization and musclepower.

  • But mechanization is not of necessity all there is to habit.

  • The mechanization of nature is the condition of a practical and progressive idealism in action.