mechanic /mi-kanˈik/

1. A skilled worker, esp one specializing in making and repairing machinery
2. A person whose job is the repairing of motor vehicles
3. An air-mechanic
4. A person working at a manual trade, an artisan (archaic)
5. A term of contempt for a person of a low social class (obsolete)
6. (also card mechanic) a card-sharper (US and Aust sl)

Mechanical

mechanˈical adjective

1. Relating to machines or mechanics
2. Relating to dynamics
3. Dynamical
4. Worked or done by machinery or by mechanism
5. Acting or done by physical, not chemical, means
6. Machinelike
7. Of the nature of a machine or mechanism
8. Without intelligence or conscious will
9. Performed simply by force of habit
10. Reflex
11. Skilled in practical matters (obsolete)
12. Manual (archaic)
13. Having a manual trade (archaic)
14. Technical (obsolete)
15. Mechanistic (philosophy)

A manual worker, an artisan

mechanˈically adverb

mechanˈicalness noun

mechanˈicals plural noun (informal)

The mechanical parts of anything

mechanician /mek-ən-ishˈən/ noun

1. A machine-maker
2. A person skilled in constructing machines and tools

mechanˈics singular noun

1. Dynamics, the science of the action of forces on bodies, including kinetics and statics
2. The art or science of machine-construction
3. The details of making or creating by manual or other process (also plural noun)
4. The system on which something works (also plural noun)

Routine procedure or procedures

mechˈanism noun

1. A group of moving parts that interact to perform a function in a machine, etc
2. The arrangement and action by which a result is produced
3. A philosophy that regards the phenomena of life as explainable by mechanical forces
4. The means adopted unconsciously towards a subconscious end (psychology)

mechˈanist noun

1. A mechanician
2. A believer in philosophical mechanism

mechanistˈic adjective

mechanistˈically adverb

mechanizāˈtion or mechanisāˈtion noun

mechˈanize or mechˈanise transitive verb

1. To make mechanical
2. To adapt to mechanical working
3. To provide with armoured armed vehicles

mechˈanizer noun

mechanomorphˈism noun

1. The philosophy of mechanism
2. Anthropomorphism applied to machines

mechanical advantage noun

The ratio of the resistance in a machine to the force applied by it

mechanical drawing noun

Instrument-aided drawing, eg of a machine, an architectural construction, etc

mechanical engineer noun

mechanical engineering noun

The branch of engineering concerned with the design and construction of machines or mechanical devices

mechanical powers plural noun

The elementary forms or parts of machines, divided into three primary forms (the lever, inclined plane and pulley) and three secondary forms (the wheel and axle, the wedge and the screw)

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