mechanism

Plural

mechanisms

1. 1.Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.

2. 2.Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.

   • A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism, known as the spindle, being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.

3. 3.A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.

   • Whatever the mechanism, attempts to starve the beast through revenue shortages somehow seem to make the beast all the more voracious.
   • A site that carried [sexually explicit] material, but that gated it off from children through credit cards or other mechanisms to verify the age of the user, would have an acceptable defense under the act.

4. 4.A mental, physical, or chemical process.

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