Mechanism

Noun

 * 1) Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power
 * 2) Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements
 * 3) A group of objects or parts that interact together. (as in Political machine)
 * 4) A mental, physical or chemical process.
 * 5)  A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.

Adjectives for Mechanism
literal; extremely delicate; intricate; lifeless; wondrous; dexterous; primary; gorgeous; elaborate; inanimate; greasy; interior; insensate; unconscious; instrumental.

Verbs for Mechanism
operate—; substitute—;  tamper with—; tinker with—; understand—; —eases; — performs; —specializes; —speeds.

Thesaurus
Charlie McCarthy, Marxism, action, agency, agent, ancilla, animalism, apparatus, appliance, approach, arrangement, art, atomism, automatic switch, behaviorism, channel selector, check valve, clockworks, commonsense realism, contour follower, contrivance, control valve, convenience, craft, creature, device, dialectical materialism, drive, drive train, dummy, dupe, earthliness, electronic control, emergency control, empiricism, engine, enginery, epiphenomenalism, expedient, facility, finder switch, fixture, flowmanostat, gear, go-between, going between, handmaid, handmaiden, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, implement, innards, instrument, instrumentality, interagent, intermediary, intermediate, intermediation, intermedium, internal selector, lever, machine, machinery, materialism, means, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanics, mediation, mediator, medium, method, midwife, minion, monism, motion, motive power, motor, movement, movements, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, organ, organization, pawn, physicalism, physicism, plaything, positive philosophy, positivism, power plant, power source, power train, pragmaticism, pragmatism, procedure, process, puppet, realism, recourse, rectifier, register regulator, representative realism, resort, safety control, safety fuse, safety stop, safety switch, safety valve, science, secularism, selector switch, sequence switch, servant, service, servo valve, servomechanism, skill, slave, stooge, structure, substantialism, system, technic, technical know-how, technical knowledge, technical skill, technics, technique, technology, temporality, thermoswitch, timer, tool, toy, utility, vehicle, voltage regulator, voltage stabilizer, watchworks, way, wheels, wheels within wheels, workings, works, worldliness

Etymology
From mechanismus < Greek mekhane, "machine"

Translations

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 * Czech: mechanismus
 * Danish: mekanisme
 * Dutch: mechanisme
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 * French: mechanisme
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 * Ido:
 * Persian: مکانیزم
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 * Romanian: mecanism
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 * Swedish: mekanism
 * Telugu: యంత్రాంగం (yantraangam)