Usually means: Explaining processes in systematic detail.
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  1. mechanistic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mechanistic: Merriam-Webster
  3. mechanistic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mechanistic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mechanistic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mechanistic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mechanistic, mechanistic: Wordnik
  8. mechanistic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mechanistic: Wiktionary
  10. mechanistic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mechanistic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mechanistic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mechanistic: Dictionary.com
  14. Mechanistic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. mechanistic: Rhymezone
  16. mechanistic: FreeDictionary.org
  17. mechanistic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. mechanistic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mechanistic: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanistic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. mechanistic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine.
▸ adjective:  Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism.
▸ adjective:  (philosophy) Having a physical or biological cause.

Similar:
mechanical, computeristic, mechanistical, automatist, automatonlike, machinic, robotic, mechanogenic, automatistic, machinal, more...

Opposite:
organic, holistic, natural, non-mechanical

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deterministic, causal, reductive, predictable, linear, more...

Phrases:
mechanistic organization, more...

Adjectives:
less, non, semi, same, more, vitalistic, anti, mechanical

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Similar:
mechanical, computeristic, mechanistical, automatist, automatonlike, machinic, robotic, mechanogenic, automatistic, machinal, more...

Opposite:
organic, holistic, natural, non-mechanical

Types:
deterministic, causal, reductive, predictable, linear, more...

Phrases:
mechanistic organization, more...

Adjectives:
less, non, semi, same, more, vitalistic, anti, mechanical

Colors:
    gray,     silver,     charcoal,     gunmetal,     iron, more...



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