Mechanical is often used as a general term to distinguish from another class of item. Mechanical may mean:

• Machine, especially in opposition to an electronic item
• Mechanical watch, utilizing a non-electric mechanism
• Mechanization, using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
• Automation, using machine decisions and processing instead of human
• Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
• Mechanism (technology), a portion of a mechanical device
• Mechanical phenomenon, as in the mechanics of the Digestive Tract or the mechanics of swallowing

Adjective

mechanical (comparative more mechanical, superlative most mechanical)

1. (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.43:

     all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.

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

   mechanical engineering

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

   mechanical dictionary

4. Done by machine.

   mechanical task

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

   mechanical arm

6. As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.

   a mechanical reply to a question

7. Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.

   the pianist was too mechanical

8. (informal) Handy with machines.

   Why don't you ask Joe to fix it? He's very mechanical.

Derived terms

• mechanical erasure
• mechanically
• mechanical pencil

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