mechanical meaning: Relating to machines and movement

We found 40 dictionaries that define the word mechanical:

General dictionaries

General (29 matching dictionaries)

mechanical: Merriam-Webster.com
mechanical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mechanical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mechanical: Collins English Dictionary
mechanical: Vocabulary.com
Mechanical, mechanical: Wordnik
mechanical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mechanical: Wiktionary
mechanical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mechanical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mechanical: Infoplease Dictionary
mechanical: Dictionary.com
mechanical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Mechanical (character), Mechanical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Mechanical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mechanical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
mechanical: Rhymezone
mechanical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mechanical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
mechanical: Free Dictionary
mechanical: Mnemonic Dictionary
mechanical: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
mechanical: Dictionary/thesaurus
mechanical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
mechanical: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (3 matching dictionaries)

Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
mechanical: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

mechanical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
mechanical: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

Mechanical (offensive): Racial Slur Database
mechanical: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
▸ adjective:  Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
▸ adjective:  Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
▸ adjective:  Done by machine.
▸ adjective:  Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
▸ adjective:  (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Handy with machines.
▸ noun:  (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
▸ noun:  One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
▸ noun:  (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
▸ noun:  (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
▸ noun:  (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
▸ noun:  (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

Opposite:

organic, manual, natural, spontaneous, intuitive

Types:

engine, gear, lever, pulley, screw, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, more...

Phrases:

mechanical properties, mechanical engineering, Mechanical ventilation, mechanical energy, quantum mechanical, more...

Adjectives:

electro, opto, micro, thermal, electrical, optical, statistical, physical, non, quantum, physico

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