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Definition of mechanism in English: mechanismnoun ˈmɛk(ə)nɪz(ə)mˈmɛkəˌnɪzəm 1A system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery. 机械装置，机器 a third motor powers the tape eject mechanism Example sentencesExamples - The slight hiss is, to my ears, about the same as the tape mechanism in my van - maybe even a bit less.
- Staff were also seen checking the mechanism which worked the electronic security gates at the end of the drive.
- The valve train consists of the valves and a mechanism that opens and closes them.
- Children had to be able to tolerate and avoid touching the catheter and the pump mechanism.
- In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
- These trigger mechanisms depend on several conditions being ‘right’ at the same time.
- However, it is rather puzzling that only in this part of the zones such triggering mechanisms did not operate.
- Felix is a very clever engineer who designs mechanisms that in the end are very simple and also easy to maintain.
- A lift mechanism for raising the tray carrier into the enclosure is also disclosed.
- Protecting lift shafts and mechanisms so they can safely be used for evacuation should also be considered.
- Over his own grunts and snarls, he failed to hear the snap of the trigger mechanism.
- He ducked at the sound of the trigger mechanism and dodged the gunfire completely.
- A bright spark shot up the length of the bolt into the chamber of the locking mechanism, triggering the circuitry to release the lock.
- These two holes must be coordinated so the mechanism will properly fit together.
- The mechanism for lifting the grate lay in a concealed room of the cave that was on the right of the stairs.
- Gears are precision mechanisms only if quality is consistent from tooth to tooth.
- All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry.
- Our clock is a superb piece of engineering, and has a mechanism that is almost identical to Big Ben in London.
- As soon as they are about to hit the trigger mechanism, bang the coin-return button.
- The engineer was one of her agents, and he had a special mechanism in the engine.
Synonyms apparatus, machine, appliance, tool, device, implement, utensil, instrument, contraption, contrivance, gadget, tackle, structure, system informal gizmo machinery, workings, works, movement, motion, action, gear, gears, wheels, components, motor, engine, power source informal innards, guts 2A natural or established process by which something takes place or is brought about. 机制；机理 the immune system's mechanism for detecting pathogens Example sentencesExamples - There were also more general mechanisms which brought private life under the public gaze.
- Administration would be based on existing interprovincial mechanisms, the report says.
- Higher plants have developed several elaborate mechanisms to ward off pathogen attack.
- Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
- Extensive investigations have failed to detect such a mechanism of gene transfer in crop plants.
- It pulverises those delicate social mechanisms that control our baser motives.
- All of these coping mechanisms have had a serious impact on the function of the family.
- Also known as splitting, there is some suggestion that this arises in early childhood as a coping mechanism.
- It is also of significance in new drug development based on the mechanism of Chinese medicine.
- Many organisms have natural mechanisms for protecting themselves from the toxic effects of metals.
- There is now no doubt that natural selection is a mechanism of evolutionary change.
- The Iraqi people must have an effective mechanism to bring complaints against soldiers who abuse their human rights.
- A plebiscite process is a democratic mechanism to ensure that the people get to choose.
- It is an uncertainty she lives with every day, but her coping mechanisms have got better over the years.
- The site has a simple registration process and a mechanism to ensure that both the seller and buyer get a fair deal.
- However, the underlying mechanism that brings about this restriction is less well understood.
- Could it be that our coping mechanisms are working for us and therefore we don't think it's so much of a challenge?
- Many of our mechanisms to develop and deliver rights protection contain covert begging processes.
- Rather, they encourage the body's own healing mechanisms to restore its natural equilibrium.
- The conference also established the mechanism through which the Alliance would operate.
Synonyms procedure, process, system, operation, method, technique, workings, means, medium, agency, channel, channels, vehicle, structure - 2.1 A contrivance in the plot of a literary work.
（文学作品情节的）手法；技巧 his Irma La Douce is a musical based on the farce mechanism 《爱玛姑娘》是一部基于笑剧手法的音乐剧。 Example sentencesExamples - Shakespeare uses all the mechanisms of alienation, including self-conscious reference to the theatrical situation, interpolated songs, and schematic or symbolic representation of abstract ideas.
- The internal struggles of the group are hopelessly dramatised, reading off like the plot mechanisms that they are.
- For novelists more interested in reanimating history, the varieties of his characters' personal languages, and the double-plot mechanism of the history plays themselves, modelled ways of representing the imagined past.
3Philosophy
mass noun The doctrine that all natural phenomena, including life and thought, can be explained with reference to mechanical or chemical processes. 〔哲〕机械论 Example sentencesExamples - Much of this controversy stemmed from the argument of mechanism versus vitalism.
- For Bergson, it is because the scientific pursuit is based on the principle of mechanism.
- Yet mechanism and postmodernism are linked by a common distrust of human subjectivity.
- It was based on antiquated natural history; he was unaffected by mechanism or Newtonianism.
- It is a different type of physics than that peddled by mechanism.
OriginMid 17th century: from modern Latin mechanismus, from Greek mēkhanē (see machine). Definition of mechanism in US English: mechanismnounˈmɛkəˌnɪzəmˈmekəˌnizəm 1A system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery. 机械装置，机器 the gunner injured his arm in the turret mechanism 炮手在炮塔机械装置中伤了手臂。 Example sentencesExamples - He ducked at the sound of the trigger mechanism and dodged the gunfire completely.
- As soon as they are about to hit the trigger mechanism, bang the coin-return button.
- Over his own grunts and snarls, he failed to hear the snap of the trigger mechanism.
- All this is conventional, except for the projection forward of present-day mechanisms and gadgetry.
- Gears are precision mechanisms only if quality is consistent from tooth to tooth.
- The slight hiss is, to my ears, about the same as the tape mechanism in my van - maybe even a bit less.
- A bright spark shot up the length of the bolt into the chamber of the locking mechanism, triggering the circuitry to release the lock.
- However, it is rather puzzling that only in this part of the zones such triggering mechanisms did not operate.
- These two holes must be coordinated so the mechanism will properly fit together.
- Protecting lift shafts and mechanisms so they can safely be used for evacuation should also be considered.
- The engineer was one of her agents, and he had a special mechanism in the engine.
- Staff were also seen checking the mechanism which worked the electronic security gates at the end of the drive.
- Children had to be able to tolerate and avoid touching the catheter and the pump mechanism.
- The mechanism for lifting the grate lay in a concealed room of the cave that was on the right of the stairs.
- Our clock is a superb piece of engineering, and has a mechanism that is almost identical to Big Ben in London.
- The valve train consists of the valves and a mechanism that opens and closes them.
- In his mind Harry began going over the internal mechanisms of this particular old heap of unobliging metal.
- These trigger mechanisms depend on several conditions being ‘right’ at the same time.
- Felix is a very clever engineer who designs mechanisms that in the end are very simple and also easy to maintain.
- A lift mechanism for raising the tray carrier into the enclosure is also disclosed.
Synonyms apparatus, machine, appliance, tool, device, implement, utensil, instrument, contraption, contrivance, gadget, tackle, structure, system machinery, workings, works, movement, motion, action, gear, gears, wheels, components, motor, engine, power source procedure, process, system, operation, method, technique, workings, means, medium, agency, channel, channels, vehicle, structure 2A natural or established process by which something takes place or is brought about. 机制；机理 we have no mechanism for assessing the success of forwarded inquiries 我们没有机制来评估转递查询的成功与否。 the mechanism by which genes build bodies 基因构成身体的机理。 Example sentencesExamples - Many organisms have natural mechanisms for protecting themselves from the toxic effects of metals.
- Administration would be based on existing interprovincial mechanisms, the report says.
- A plebiscite process is a democratic mechanism to ensure that the people get to choose.
- There is now no doubt that natural selection is a mechanism of evolutionary change.
- Also known as splitting, there is some suggestion that this arises in early childhood as a coping mechanism.
- The Iraqi people must have an effective mechanism to bring complaints against soldiers who abuse their human rights.
- Rather, they encourage the body's own healing mechanisms to restore its natural equilibrium.
- Higher plants have developed several elaborate mechanisms to ward off pathogen attack.
- Many of our mechanisms to develop and deliver rights protection contain covert begging processes.
- It pulverises those delicate social mechanisms that control our baser motives.
- Extensive investigations have failed to detect such a mechanism of gene transfer in crop plants.
- There were also more general mechanisms which brought private life under the public gaze.
- However, the underlying mechanism that brings about this restriction is less well understood.
- The conference also established the mechanism through which the Alliance would operate.
- The site has a simple registration process and a mechanism to ensure that both the seller and buyer get a fair deal.
- Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.
- Could it be that our coping mechanisms are working for us and therefore we don't think it's so much of a challenge?
- It is an uncertainty she lives with every day, but her coping mechanisms have got better over the years.
- It is also of significance in new drug development based on the mechanism of Chinese medicine.
- All of these coping mechanisms have had a serious impact on the function of the family.
Synonyms procedure, process, system, operation, method, technique, workings, means, medium, agency, channel, channels, vehicle, structure - 2.1 A contrivance in the plot of a literary work.
（文学作品情节的）手法；技巧 his Irma La Douce is a musical based on the farce mechanism 《爱玛姑娘》是一部基于笑剧手法的音乐剧。 Example sentencesExamples - For novelists more interested in reanimating history, the varieties of his characters' personal languages, and the double-plot mechanism of the history plays themselves, modelled ways of representing the imagined past.
- The internal struggles of the group are hopelessly dramatised, reading off like the plot mechanisms that they are.
- Shakespeare uses all the mechanisms of alienation, including self-conscious reference to the theatrical situation, interpolated songs, and schematic or symbolic representation of abstract ideas.
3Philosophy
The doctrine that all natural phenomena, including life and thought, allow mechanical explanation by physics and chemistry. 〔哲〕机械论 Example sentencesExamples - Much of this controversy stemmed from the argument of mechanism versus vitalism.
- Yet mechanism and postmodernism are linked by a common distrust of human subjectivity.
- It was based on antiquated natural history; he was unaffected by mechanism or Newtonianism.
- It is a different type of physics than that peddled by mechanism.
- For Bergson, it is because the scientific pursuit is based on the principle of mechanism.
OriginMid 17th century: from modern Latin mechanismus, from Greek mēkhanē (see machine). |