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mechanical English
Meaning mechanical meaning
What does mechanical mean?
Definitions in simple English
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How do I use mechanical in a sentence?
Simple sentences
It's just a mechanical problem.
The result of the invention of the steam engine was that human power was replaced by mechanical power.
It's hard to find a totally mechanical pinball machine. These days, they're all electronic.
After long consideration, Beth decided to major in mechanical engineering.
I regret that some of our most intelligent colleagues obstinately cling to a purely technocratic view of language as if it were a machine built out of mechanical parts.
We've got a mechanical problem.
Movie subtitles
Su Song combined it with a gear-driven escapement to create the world's first mechanical clock.
The Chinese had invented the mechanical clock, but now the imperial court was reduced to accepting superior timepieces as gifts from Europeans.
I can write all about how my mom was dying from breast cancer when I was in kindergarten, how the only thing I really remember about her is her hospital and her mechanical bed, and how the smells in there still scare the crap out of me.
I have found a strange old mechanical presentation of Hell, which offers a good understanding of the beliefs in the Middle Ages.
You only heard a mechanical reproduction of it.
A mechanical means of inducing hypnosis.
I enlisted where my mechanical knowledge would do the most good.
You know, I have the largest collection of these mechanical devices. in the whole wide world.
A mechanical toy better than - than any of mine?
Well, it's purely mechanical.
No mechanical contrivance can compete with the voice of a living creature.
He's a mechanical genius. - It is your father's idea. - Or he's both.
THIS IS A MECHANICAL BRAIN, TOO.
They've always seemed a bit too mechanical for me.
Don't gimme that. Damn mechanical doll. Adios.
They are mechanical blunderbusses.
There is a two-phase process using a drug and a mechanical device.
Somewhat mechanical.
Mechanical problems.
Hunts, castle and mechanical birds!
That mechanical orchestra with which you pursued me from Vienna to that forest?
I learnt the difference between a fine oil painting and a mechanical thing like a photo.
I've created her from mechanical parts.
When I tell you it's considered the mechanical wonder of the age, you'll be surprised.
It's the high point of my career as a collector of musical and mechanical instruments.
It was just mechanical.
It's a mechanical thing. It can go wrong, can't it?
That could be either. ooh, electrical. or m - me - mechanical or c-chemical.
Forgive the mess but all major mechanical projects seem to get started in the living room.
Now, that could all be mechanical. But, they don't come back in that exact number of minutes.
At this precise moment you are, with the speed of a mechanical brain, weighing and computing an infinite number of possibilities.
Well, as I said before, it's a very simple mechanical operation, once it had been explained.
He argues that Frank Jessup's mechanical skill and knowledge was necessary to transform the automobile into a murder weapon.
By mechanical toys, or a teddy bear in the face. Maybe later on a football in the tummy.
News and current affairs
In a blindly mechanical way, the U.S. had taken the view that all major UN agencies should keep their budgets unchanged in nominal (current-dollar) terms, leading to a drop in real spending because of inflation.
Companies like Toshiba and Sony depended on two regions - Otaku in Tokyo, and Higashi Osaka in Osaka Prefecture -where thousands of manufacturers of precision mechanical and electronic components were clustered.
This means that we should view the economy and society not as rigid hierarchies or mechanical markets, but as networks or webs of life, in which contracts, formal and informal, fulfilled or violated, are the essence of human activity.
Indeed, it is vital to understand that Europe's integration process is not mechanical but organic.
Now, women like Noushin, a student from Esfahan who told the BBC that she wanted to be a mechanical engineer, are unable to achieve their ambitions, despite getting high scores on their entrance exams.
Instead, exchange rate stability will be assessed according to economic fundamentals and countries' economic policy mix, rather than by rigidly applying mechanical rules.
The global market today is the very model of what scientists call a complex adaptive system, which are nonlinear and tend to resemble biological rather than mechanical systems.
Mainstream economists believe that the global economy should function as a balanced mechanical arrangement in which external surpluses and deficits are smoothed out over time.
According to the story, Descartes was so struck with grief that he created an automaton, a mechanical doll, built to appear identical to his dead daughter.
Russia needs standards that are developed in Russia and for Russia, not a set of mechanical rules implemented under the control of European entities.
We can only wish that formulating economic policy were as clear-cut as, say, mechanical engineering.
Then came the addition of draft animals and gradual supplementation of animal prime movers by mechanical prime movers, such as sails and wheels, that capture natural energy flows.
These realities offer three obvious but under-appreciated conclusions about the mechanical prime movers that are the foundations of our economic progress.
He has no specific program or strong ideas, but he speaks in a clear and reasonable way (he calls himself liberal-conservative) that is very different from the mechanical party language of the postcommunists and rightists.
But Kasparov quickly adjusted to exploit the computer's weakness in long-term strategic planning, where his judgment and intuition seemed to trump the computer's mechanical counting.
Are we perhaps pursuing too mechanical an ideal which confuses the absence of privilege and disadvantage with the absence of diversity?
An expensive handcrafted mechanical watch may tell time no more accurately than a cheap quartz model; but, because few people can afford one, buying it signals that the owner is rich.
But, obviously, democratic participation becomes less and less meaningful the more rote and mechanical it seems.