Word Meanings - MECHANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the

Additional info about word: MECHANISM

An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod. 2. Mechanical operation or action. He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident. Bentley.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MECHANISM)

• Appliance
• Contrivance
• mechanism
• arrangement
• means
• agency

Related words: (words related to MECHANISM)

• MECHANISM
  An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements. (more info) 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the
• AGENCY
  1. The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward. 2. The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between
• CONTRIVANCE
  1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented,
• ARRANGEMENT
  1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition in suitable form. 2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic
• APPLIANCE
  1. The act of applying; application; subservience. Shak. 2. The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical appliance; a machine with its appliances.
• MISARRANGEMENT
  Wrong arrangement.
• INTERAGENCY
  Intermediate agency.
• SUBAGENCY
  A subordinate agency.
• DISARRANGEMENT
  The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged; confusion; disorder. Cowper.
• COAGENCY
  Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.
• REARRANGEMENT
  The act of rearranging, or the state of being rearranged.