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mechanical
English
Etymology
From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic +? -al.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m??kæn?k(?)l/
Adjective
mechanical (comparative more mechanical, superlative most mechanical)
- (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
- Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
- Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
- Done by machine.
- Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
- As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
- (informal) Handy with machines.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
mechanical (plural mechanicals)
- (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
- 2009, New York State Sales and Use Tax Law and Regulations
- In order to produce the posters, the advertising agency purchases photographs, composition and artwork and fabricates such property to produce layouts and mechanicals.
- 2009, New York State Sales and Use Tax Law and Regulations
- One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
- (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
- (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
- (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
- (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.
- (archaic) A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.
Synonyms
- (camera-ready artwork): pasteup
Further reading
- "mechanical" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 201.
mechanical From the web:
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- what mechanical energy
- what mechanical digestion occurs in the stomach
- what mechanical boss is the easiest
- what mechanical keyboard to buy
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- what mechanical keyboard switch is right for me
- what mechanically digests ingested food
alternator
English
Etymology
alternate +? -or
Noun
alternator (plural alternators)
- An electric generator which produces alternating current through mechanical means.
Derived terms
- Alexanderson alternator
- turboalternator
Translations
Latin
Verb
altern?tor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of altern?
- third-person singular future passive imperative of altern?
Romanian
Etymology
From French alternateur.
Noun
alternator n (plural alternatoare)
- alternator
Declension
alternator From the web:
- what alternator fits my car
- what alternator do i need
- what alternator do i have
- what alternator do i need for my car
- what alternator does
- what alternator do
- what alternator should i buy
- what alternator do i need for my system
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