Dictionary Entry
mechanism
mechanism is a 9-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 21 · 8 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
Mechanical operation or action.
- 3noun
An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.
- 4noun
the technical aspects of doing something
"a mechanism of social control"
"mechanisms of communication"
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- 5noun
device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function
- 6noun
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes
- 7noun
a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function
"the mechanism of the ear"
"the mechanism of infection"
- 8noun
the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
"he determined unique mechanisms for the photochemical reactions"
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