Mechanical

A 2020 Google-generated definition of "mechanical", meaning related to machines; a person lacking thought or spontaneity; or things related to physical forces or motion.

In science, mechanical, or "mechanistic", refers to things done like a machine; related to mechanism.

Quotes
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“The science of thermodynamics had its origin in severely practical problems relating to the efficiency of engines, but it was soon extended to cover the operations of nature as a whole. All this happened in the days when nature WAS assumed, without question, to be mechanical and deterministic.”

— James Jeans (1933), The New Background of Science (pg. 261) (Ѻ)

See also
● Mechanical action
● Mechanical effect
● Mechanical energy
● Mechanical engineering
● Mechanical equivalent of heat
● Mechanical philosophy
● Mechanics
● Mechanistic school
● Mechanical theory
● Mechanical theory of heat
● Mechanical universe
● Mechanical work

External links
● Mechanical – Wikipedia.

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