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Word Meanings - MECHANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the

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An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod. 2. Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

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  • MECHANISM
    An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the
  • AGENCY
    1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
  • CONTRIVANCE
    1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
  • ARRANGEMENT
    1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. 2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic
  • APPLIANCE
    1. The act of applying; application; subservience. Shak. 2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
  • MISARRANGEMENT
    Wrong arrangement.
  • INTERAGENCY
    Intermediate agency.
  • SUBAGENCY
    A subordinate agency.
  • DISARRANGEMENT
    The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.
  • COAGENCY
    Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.
  • REARRANGEMENT
    The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.

 

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