Usually means: Relating to machines and movement.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word mechanical:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanical: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mechanical: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mechanical: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mechanical: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mechanical: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mechanical, mechanical: Wordnik
  7. mechanical: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mechanical: Wiktionary
  9. mechanical: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mechanical: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mechanical: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mechanical: Dictionary.com
  13. mechanical: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Mechanical (character), Mechanical: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mechanical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mechanical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mechanical: Rhymezone
  18. mechanical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mechanical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. mechanical: Free Dictionary
  21. mechanical: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. mechanical: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. mechanical: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. mechanical: ANIME AND MANGA GLOSSARY

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. mechanical: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mechanical: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mechanical: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mechanical (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. mechanical: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mechanically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
adjective:  Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
adjective:  Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
adjective:  Done by machine.
adjective:  Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
adjective:  (figurative) As if performed by a machine: lifeless, mindless, thoughtless, automatic.
adjective:  (of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
adjective:  (informal) Handy with machines.
noun:  (advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
noun:  One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
noun:  (science fiction) A robot or mechanical creature.
noun:  (engineering) A mechanical engineer.
noun:  (cycling) An instance of equipment failure.
noun:  (music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
noun:  (archaic) A machine that performs a job typically accomplished using an animal or manual labor.

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