Mechanical may refer to:
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Machine (mechanical)
A machine is a physical system that uses Power (physics), power to apply forces and control Motion, movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natura ...
, a system of mechanisms that shape the actuator input to achieve a specific application of output forces and movement
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Mechanical calculator
A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or a simulation like an analog computer or a slide rule. Most mechanical calculators were comparable in si ...
, a device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic
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Mechanical energy
In physical sciences, mechanical energy is the sum of macroscopic potential and kinetic energies. The principle of conservation of mechanical energy states that if an isolated system is subject only to conservative forces, then the mechanical ...
, the sum of potential energy and kinetic energy
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Mechanical system
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromolec ...
, a system that manages the power of forces and movements to accomplish a task
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Mechanism (engineering)
In engineering, a mechanism is a Machine, device that transforms input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement. Mechanisms generally consist of moving components which may include Gears and gear trains; belt drive, ...
, a portion of a mechanical device
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Mechanical (character)
The mechanicals are six characters in ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' who perform the story within a story, play-within-a-play ''Pyramus and Thisbe''. They are a group of amateur and mostly incompetent actors from around Athens, looking to make nam ...
, one of several characters in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''
* A kind of typeface in the
VOX-ATypI classification
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Machine
A machine is a physical system that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action. The term is commonly applied to artificial devices, such as those employing engines or motors, but also to natural biological macromol ...
, especially in opposition to an electronic item
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Mechanical Animals
''Mechanical Animals'' is the third studio album by American rock band Marilyn Manson. It was released on September 15, 1998, by Interscope Records. Departing from the post-industrial style of the band's earlier works, the album has a more me ...
'', the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson
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Manufactured
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of the
secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a ...
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artificial
Artificiality (the state of being artificial, anthropogenic, or man-made) is the state of being the product of intentional human manufacture, rather than occurring naturally through processes not involving or requiring human activity.
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, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
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Automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...
, using machine decisions and processing instead of human
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Mechanization
Mechanization (or mechanisation) is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery. In an early engineering text, a machine is defined as follows:
In every fields, mechan ...
, using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
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Mechanical watch
A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a Movement (clockwork), clockwork mechanism to measure the passage of time, as opposed to quartz watches which function using the vibration modes of a piezoelectric quartz tuning fork, or radio clock, radio ...
, utilizing a non-electric mechanism
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Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...
, a branch of engineering concerned with the application of physical mechanics
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HVAC
Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC ) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. ...
(heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning), the mechanical systems of a building
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phenomenon
A phenomenon ( phenomena), sometimes spelled phaenomenon, is an observable Event (philosophy), event. The term came into its modern Philosophy, philosophical usage through Immanuel Kant, who contrasted it with the noumenon, which ''cannot'' be ...
, as in the mechanics of the Digestive Tract or the mechanics of swallowing
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Mechanical license
In copyright law, a mechanical license is a license from the holder of a copyright of a composition or musical work, to another party to create a " cover song", reproduce, or sample a portion of the original composition. It applies to copyrighte ...
, used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song
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Mechanic (disambiguation)
Mechanic, mechanical, mechanician, or mechanics may refer to:
Professions
* Mechanic, a person who uses tools to build, fix and maintain machinery
** Aircraft Maintenance Technician, or aircraft mechanic, a person who repairs aircraft
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Mechanism
Mechanism may refer to:
*Mechanism (economics), a set of rules for a game designed to achieve a certain outcome
**Mechanism design, the study of such mechanisms
*Mechanism (engineering), rigid bodies connected by joints in order to accomplish a ...
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Mechanics
Mechanics () is the area of physics concerned with the relationships between force, matter, and motion among Physical object, physical objects. Forces applied to objects may result in Displacement (vector), displacements, which are changes of ...
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