Main entry: mechanics, mechanism
Definition: the technical aspects of doing something
Usage: a mechanism of social control; mechanisms of communication; the mechanics of prose style
Main entry: mechanism
Definition: device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
Main entry: mechanism
Definition: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
Main entry: mechanism
Definition: a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
Usage: the mechanism of the ear; the mechanism of infection
Main entry: mechanism, chemical mechanism
Definition: the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
Usage: he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions