Mechanicalness

me·chan·i·cal  (m-kn-kl)

adj.

1. Of or relating to machines or tools: mechanical skill.

2. Operated or produced by a mechanism or machine: a mechanical toy dog.

3. Of, relating to, or governed by mechanics.

4. Performed or performing in an impersonal or machinelike manner; automatic: a droning, mechanical delivery of the speech.

5. Relating to, produced by, or dominated by physical forces: the mechanical aspect of trumpet playing.

6. Philosophy Interpreting and explaining the phenomena of the universe by referring to causally determined material forces; mechanistic.

7. Of or relating to manual labor, its tools, and its skills.

n. Printing

A layout consisting of type proofs, artwork, or both, exactly positioned and prepared for making an offset or other printing plate.

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me·chani·cal·ly adv.

me·chani·cal·ness n.