Usually means: Systems or processes enabling an action.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word mechanisms:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanisms: Merriam-Webster
  2. mechanisms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mechanisms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mechanisms, mechanism's, mechanisms: Wordnik
  5. mechanisms: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mechanisms: Wiktionary
  7. mechanisms: Dictionary.com
  8. mechanisms: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Mechanisms: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mechanisms: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mechanisms: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mechanism)

noun:  (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
noun:  Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun:  A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
noun:  A mental, physical, or chemical process.
noun:  Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
noun:  (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
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