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A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.

To cause to become mechanical.

In a mechanical manner.

The state or quality of being mechanical.

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

A mechanic or mechanician expert in the art and practice of aëronautics.

Of or pert. to aëromechanics.

The science of equilibrium and motion of air or an aëriform fluid, including aërodynamics and aërostatics.

That branch of physics which treats of the mechanics of liquids, or of their laws of equilibrium and of motion.

Not mechanical. [Obs.] Cheyne. -- Im"me*chan"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving.

Designating, or pert. to, any device for operating mechanisms at a distance. --Tel`e*mech"a*nism (#), n.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

iculty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply. "Adroit in the application of the telescope and quadrant." Horsley. "He was adroit in intrigue." Macaulay.

which treats of the air and other gaseous bodies under the action of force, and of their mechanical effects.

language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R…

everal component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.