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adjective(me-chan-i-cal)of or relating to machinery or tools
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adjective(me-chan-i-cal)produced or operated by a machine or tool
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adjective(me-chan-i-cal)of or relating to manual operations
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)mechanic
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)a piece of finished copy consisting typically of type proofs and artwork positioned and mounted for photomechanical reproduction
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)the advantage gained by the use of a mechanism in transmitting force; specifically : the ratio of the force that performs the useful work of a machine to the force that is applied to the machine
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)drawing done with the aid of instruments
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)a drawing made with instruments
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)a branch of engineering concerned primarily with the industrial application of mechanics and with the production of tools, machinery, and their products
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noun(me-chan-i-cal)a pencil made of metal or plastic with a lead that is moved forward by a mechanical device
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noun, plural in form but singular or plural in construction(me-chan-i-cal)a theory of matter that is based on the concept of the possession of wave properties by elementary particles, that affords a mathematical interpretation of the structure and interactions of matter on the basis of these properties, and that incorporates within it quantum theory and the uncertainty principle —called also wave mechanics