MECHANISM

Mechanism

Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes are like complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. Thus, the source of an apparent thing's activities is not the whole itself, but its parts or an external influence on the parts.

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mechanism

Noun

  1. Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
  2. Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
  3. A group of objects or parts that interact together. (as in Political machine)
  4. A mental, physical or chemical process.
  5. A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.


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