simple mechanism

collocation in English

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simple
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
us
/ˈsɪm.pəl/
easy to understand or do; ...
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mechanism
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
us
/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Thissimplemechanismprevents the optimizer from trying to run through walls.
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This observation provides us with asimplemechanismfor filtering out unifications that cannot possibly succeed.
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Thissimplemechanismis perhaps the most elaborate in our deliberately modest, terminal-based interface.
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Asimplemechanismcould explain how one differentiates activity caused by looking at one's self, another person imitating you, or just another person.
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Thesimplemechanismconsidered here is that of two-dimensional bottom topography.
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We have provided asimplemechanismthat allows the user to specify how these hyperlinks should be mnemonically displayed.
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Although bargaining is asimplemechanismof trading, it is also vulnerable to strategic behaviour of the negotiating parties.
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It seems amazing that the silkworm has established a crisis management system in spermatogenesis by adopting such asimplemechanismas peristaltic squeezing.
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From physics, formation of a rather uniform solid layer directly from a highly nonuniform liquid layer can be controlled by a verysimplemechanism.
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The independence of the calculations on the tuple components should allow for a relatively cheap andsimplemechanismto implement the parallel evaluation.
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This study demonstrates asimplemechanismwhereby overdominance in fitness can be produced in any gynodioecious species in which hermaphrodites are self-compatible and experience inbreeding depression.
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Uno et al.56 experimented on asimplemechanismto achieve minimum energy loss during landing.
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Feed-forward conditioning offers asimplemechanismfor explaining how social groups can become established.
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It is asimplemechanismbut it is not practicable.
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Why do they not wish to promote its usage by this verysimplemechanism?
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We need asimplemechanismto deal with that.
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There is a verysimplemechanismwhich forms an important part of that decrease.
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I am trying to arrive at asimplemechanismto allow the voters—the workers in a company, that is—to be properly registered.
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By thissimplemechanism, then, you will get over this difficulty.
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Unfortunately, is opposes thesimplemechanismthat we propose.
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