mechanism

[ˈmekənɪzəm]

Definition:
1. A set of moving parts in a machine that performs a task.
2. The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction.
3. The technical aspects of doing something.

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Use 'mechanism' in a sentence:

1. The tannins are part of the defense mechanism that is essential to longevity.
2. "When we can't actually remove the source of our fear, we tend to adapt psychologically by adopting a range of defence mechanisms," says Tom Crompton, change strategist for the environmental organisation World Wide Fund for Nature.
3. The Antikythera Mechanism also tracked both the lunar year and the solar year.
4. Impacts by meteorites represent one mechanism that could cause global catastrophes and seriously influence the evolution of life all over the planet.
5. The problem stems at least in part from the lack of any plausible mechanism for telepathy.
6. The muscles of these fishes and the mechanism that maintains a warm body temperature are also highly efficient.
7. So if there is not a unit of work habits must be a mechanism that is not completely fair will open without strict sales.
8. She disengaged the film advance mechanism on the camera.
9. He explained how the two mechanisms worked.
10. Mechanism that transmits power from the engine to the driving wheels of a motor vehicle.
11. The indicators of the Antikythera Mechanism, would then move to show the motion of the Sun and Moon relative to the planets and stars.
12. These digital products aren't just mechanisms for students to submit homework, they offer all kinds of features, David Anderson, the executive director of higher education with the Association of American Publishers, told BuzzFeed News.
13. UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.
14. Once you define the transport mechanism for retrieving resources, create a sandbox to load resources into.
15. Thus the brain's flavor-recognition system is a highly complex perceptual mechanism that puts all five senses to work in various combinations.
16. Inchworm actuators are classified by the clamping mechanism.
17. The Antikythera Mechanism was found a hundred years ago, under water in an ancient Greek shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea.
18. They are part of a built-in mechanism, which allows us to cope with the ups and downs of our lives both physically and mentally.
19. Research on Mechanism Design and Code Compiling System of Open NC Experimental Platform.
20. Difficulties arise in attempting to understand the mechanisms of antiarrhythmic drug action for several reasons.
21. Nonverbal thinking, a central mechanism in engineering design, involves perceptions, the stock-in-trade of the artist, not the scientist.
22. Why not use a more sophisticated logging mechanism to keep track of which files have been uploaded and when?
23. The pull mechanism has long been favored by most scientists.
24. Certain "misplaced" volcanoes far from plate edges result from a second, independent mechanism that cools the deep interior of Earth.
25. This is a good mechanism.
26. Cutting, a professor at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the "mere-exposure effect" played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league.
27. There are no mechanisms for changing the decision.
28. Plants have different mechanisms of dispersal for their spores.
29. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats.
30. I don't know if we will consider AOP the primary design mechanism when we build systems.
31. He also suggested that this is one of the compensatory mechanisms.
32. Since it is a new mechanism of action, these compounds are active against multi-drug resistant variants.
33. These messages are part of your survival mechanism and should not be stifled simply because emotions are unhealthy and betray your weaknesses.
34. No very satisfactory account of the mechanism that caused the formation of the ocean basins has yet been given.
35. We analyze the project economical contract liability mechanism that widely used on construction scene in order to answer the question of which mechanism is available.
36. Essentially the catalytic properties of clay minerals arise because of their ability to donate protons or accept electrons in reaction mechanisms.
37. Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only "sorting mechanism" in society should be profit and the market.
38. Senators say it is crucial that a mechanism is found to compensate for inflation.
39. Here, the evolutionary theory must defer to a theory based on an explicit developmental mechanism that can favor either right-or left-handedness.
40. Here, the evolutionary theory must defer to a theory based on an explicit developmental mechanism that can favor either right or left-handedness.
41. After seeing this, Duncan publically denounced ballet as a form of acrobatics, uh, complicated and excruciating mechanism she called it.
42. The economic market is a self-correcting mechanism, that does not need regulation by government.
43. The rewarding excellence and punishing inferior mechanism needs to optimized through dynamic management of the fellowships and assistantships.
44. As we get older the temperature-regulating mechanisms in the body tend to become a little less efficient.
45. There's a loose part that keeps jamming the mechanism.
46. There's no mechanism for punishing arms exporters who break the rules.
47. A ratchet mechanism transfers the thread from spool to bobbin.
48. The reward system in Suqian offers an effective mechanism to ensure security volunteers themselves can also benefit from their good deeds.
49. Normally, when demand and supply are out of sync, you either increase the supply, or you adjust the price mechanism.
50. We will rely on scientific and technological advancement, encourage the role of market mechanism and economic leverage.
51. For a generation, the collective doctrine has been that the sorting mechanism of society should be profit.
52. He described Britain's entry into the European Exchange Rate Mechanism as an historic move.
53. The body has natural defence mechanisms to protect it from disease.
54. A crew of assistants oiled and adjusted the release mechanism until it worked perfectly.
55. Pain acts as a natural defence mechanism.
56. Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.