Usually means: Relating to machines and movement.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word mechanical:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanical: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mechanical: Merriam-Webster
  3. mechanical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mechanical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mechanical: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mechanical: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mechanical, mechanical: Wordnik
  8. mechanical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mechanical: Wiktionary
  10. mechanical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mechanical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mechanical: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mechanical: Dictionary.com
  14. mechanical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mechanical (character), Mechanical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mechanical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mechanical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mechanical: Rhymezone
  19. mechanical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mechanical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mechanical: FreeDictionary.org
  22. mechanical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mechanical: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. mechanical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. mechanical: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. mechanical: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mechanical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanical: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. mechanical: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mechanical (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. mechanical: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
▸ adjective:  Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
▸ adjective:  Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
▸ adjective:  Done by machine.
▸ adjective:  Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
▸ adjective:  (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
▸ adjective:  (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
▸ adjective:  (informal) Handy with machines.
▸ noun:  (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
▸ noun:  One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
▸ noun:  (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
▸ noun:  (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
▸ noun:  (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
▸ noun:  (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
▸ noun:  (archaic) A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

Similar:
mechanic, mechanized, machinelike, automatonlike, mechanistic, robotlike, windup, automatic, nonhuman, mechanically skillful, more...

Opposite:
organic, manual, natural, spontaneous, intuitive

Types:
engine, gear, lever, pulley, screw, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, more...

Phrases:
mechanical properties, mechanical engineering, Mechanical ventilation, mechanical energy, quantum mechanical, more...

Adjectives:
electro, opto, micro, thermal, electrical, optical, statistical, physical, non, quantum, physico

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Similar:
mechanic, mechanized, machinelike, automatonlike, mechanistic, robotlike, windup, automatic, nonhuman, mechanically skillful, more...

Opposite:
organic, manual, natural, spontaneous, intuitive

Types:
engine, gear, lever, pulley, screw, wedge, wheel and axle, inclined plane, more...

Phrases:
mechanical properties, mechanical engineering, Mechanical ventilation, mechanical energy, quantum mechanical, mechanical engineers, mechanical systems, mechanical system, mechanical strength, mechanical work, more...

Adjectives:
electro, opto, micro, thermal, electrical, optical, statistical, physical, non, quantum, physico

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



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