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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
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physiological
English
Etymology
- physiology +? -ical
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?f?zi.??l?d??k?l/
Adjective
physiological (comparative more physiological, superlative most physiological)
- Of, or relating to physiology.
- Relating to the action of a drug when given to a healthy person, as distinguished from its therapeutic action.
Synonyms
- physiologic
Derived terms
Translations
physiological From the web:
- what physiological factors produce hunger
- what physiological factors determine vo2max
- what physiological factors are responsible for fatigue
- what physiological factors influence blood pressure
- what physiologically speaking is diabetes
- what physiological process is depicted in this figure
- what physiological processes occur in the stomach and how
- what are the physiological factors that go into producing hunger
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