Definition of Mechanism

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Mechanism

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.

Mechanical operation or action.

An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.

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Mechanism Quotations

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Chuck Palahniuk

The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler

Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.
Honore de Balzac

For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell Maltz

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
Garry Shandling

Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of moral ends. This is why most appeals against violent means usually fall on deaf ears.
Albert Bandura

Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
Robert Redford

Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of an animal, or a machine, can work only if it is in physical order.
Rudolf Arnheim

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.
Alfred North Whitehead

It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Mechanism Translations

mechanism in German is Mechanismus
mechanism in Italian is ordigno
mechanism in Spanish is mecanismo
mechanism in Swedish is mekanism

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