mechanical adj

1 using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; "a mechanical process"; "his smile was very mechanical"; "a mechanical toy" [ant: nonmechanical]

2 relating to or concerned with machinery or tools; "mechanical arts"; "mechanical design"; "mechanical skills" [syn: mechanically skillful]

3 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"

4 lacking thought or feeling [syn: mechanistic]

English

Pronunciation

• /mɛˈkænɪkəl̩/

Adjective

1. Related to mechanics, done by machine.

Derived terms

• mechanical erasure
• mechanically
• mechanical pencil

Related terms

• mechanic
• mechanics
• mechanism
• electromechanical

Translations

• Mechanical engineering, a branch of engineering concerned with the application of physical mechanics
• HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning), the mechanical systems of a building

Mechanical may also refer to:

• Mechanical (character), one of several characters in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Mechanical (Myst), one of the settings in the computer game Myst
• Mechanical Animals, the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson
• Mechanical license, used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song
• A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification

Mechanical is often used as a general term to distinguish from another class of item. Mechanical may mean:

• Machine, especially in opposition to an electronic item
• Mechanical watch, utilizing a non-electric mechanism
• Mechanization, using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
• Automation, using machine decisions and processing instead of human
• Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
• Mechanism (technology), a portion of a mechanical device

See also

accordant, aeromechanical, alike, automated, automatic, balanced, biomechanical, blind, cold, colorless, compulsive, conditioned, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, dead, distant, equable, equal, even, flat, forced, habitual, homogeneous, immutable, impersonal, impulsive, inanimate, insensible, instinctive, invariable, involuntary, level, lifeless, locomotive, locomotor, machinal, machine-made, machinelike, matter-of-fact, measured, mechanistic, mechanized, methodic, monolithic, of a piece, ordered, orderly, perfunctory, persistent, power-driven, powered, reflex, reflexive, regular, ritualistic, robotlike, routine, smooth, spiritless, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, unanimated, unartistic, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconscious, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unemotional, unfeeling, uniform, uninspired, unintentional, unruffled, unthinking, unvaried, unvarying, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, zoomechanical