mechanical

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ adjective
1 operated by power from an engine: a mechanical device / toy / clock + mechanical parts
2 connected with machines and engines: mechanical problems / defects + The breakdown was due to a mechanical failure.
3 (disapproving) (of people's behaviour and actions) done without thinking, like a machine: a mechanical gesture / response + My work has become mechanical-I could do it in my sleep.
4 connected with the physical laws of movement and cause and effect (= with MECHANICS): mechanical processes
5 (of a person) good at understanding how machines work
mechanically adverb: a mechanically powered vehicle + She spoke mechanically, as if thinking of something else. + He's always been mechanically minded.

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 automatic, automated, machine-driven; machine-made:

Early mechanical toys are sometimes quite intricate. This is a mechanical, not a hand-crafted device

2 automatic, reflex, involuntary, instinctive, routine, habitual, unconscious, perfunctory, machine-like, robot-like:

Good manners ought to be mechanical. Blinking is a mechanical reaction to bright light.

3 impersonal, distant, cold, matter-of-fact, unfeeling, insensible, ritualistic, lifeless, spiritless, dead, inanimate, unanimated, unemotional, unartistic, mechanistic, colourless, uninspired, business-like:

The girl at the check-out gave us a mechanical smile.

Concise English dictionary

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mɪ'kænɪkl
adj.
+using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices
+relating to or concerned with machinery or tools
+relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics