mechanical

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative

more mechanical

Superlative

most mechanical

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

mechanicals

Adjective

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A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

1. 1.Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).

2. 2.Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).

3. 3.Done by machine.

4. 4.Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.

   • We'll start with a simple mechanical for a standard 7" x 10" ad, using one block of copy, some display type, and one picture.
   • In order to produce the posters, the advertising agency purchases photographs, composition and artwork and fabricates such property to produce layouts and mechanicals.
   • Since we are dealing with copy in paste-up form, we are now concerned with the preparation and assembly of elements suitable for camera-ready copy, positioned on the mechanical according to the rough layout supplied.

2. 2.One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals.

   • Rude mechanicals must know their place in a horsey army.

3. 3.A robot or mechanical creature.

   • Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?
   • This is an example of what can take place when mechanicals are programmed with human attributes and designed to interact closely with humans.
   • Mechanicals arose when advanced, organic societies somehow committed suicide, from war, degeneration, unimaginable things -- or retreated, from plain simple lack of interest in the tensions of the technological life.

4. 4.A mechanical engineer.

   • "I don't need a clerk," he said. "What I need is more engineers, mechanicals, especially."
   • When the older courses had been separated from the literary curriculum eight years the civils, mechanicals and electricals had changed their relative positions four times.
   • A membership campaign was carried on early in the year and quite a number of the new mechanicals were reached, as well as a number of the old men who had slipped by the wayside.

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Synonyms

• technical

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• mechanic