Usually means: System of parts working together.
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  1. mechanism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mechanism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mechanism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mechanism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mechanism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mechanism, mechanism: Wordnik
  7. mechanism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mechanism: Wiktionary
  9. mechanism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mechanism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mechanism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. mechanism: Dictionary.com
  13. mechanism: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mechanism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mechanism (band), Mechanism (biology), Mechanism (engineering), Mechanism (philosophy), Mechanism (sociology), Mechanism (technology), Mechanism, The Mechanism (TV series), The Mechanism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mechanism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mechanism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mechanism: Rhymezone
  19. mechanism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mechanism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mechanism: Free Dictionary
  22. mechanism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. mechanism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mechanism: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. mechanism: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mechanism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
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  1. Mechanism (philosophy), Mechanism (technology), mechanism: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Mechanism: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. mechanism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. Mechanism (philosophy), mechanism: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mechanism: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mechanism: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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noun:  (within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
noun:  Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
noun:  A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.
noun:  A mental, physical, or chemical process.
noun:  Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.
noun:  (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.

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