Definition of Mechanical phenomenon

1. Noun. A physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects.

Generic synonyms: Physical Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Inertia, Leverage, Purchase, Sound, Flight, Trajectory, Resistance

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mechanical Phenomenon

mechanical drawing
mechanical energies
mechanical energy
mechanical engineer
mechanical engineering
mechanical heart
mechanical ileus
mechanical intelligence
mechanical jaundice
mechanical lithosphere
mechanical man
mechanical mixture
mechanical pencil
mechanical pencils
mechanical phenomenon (current term)
mechanical piano
mechanical press
mechanical stage
mechanical strabismus
mechanical system
mechanical tubelength
mechanical vector
mechanical ventilation
mechanical ventilator
mechanical vertigo
mechanicality
mechanicalize
mechanicalized
mechanicalizes

Literary usage of Mechanical phenomenon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A System of Metaphysics by George Stuart Fullerton (1904)
"mechanical phenomenon in terms of any mechanical law. In the first case the demonstration was one only when we placed upon ourselves certain restrictions as ..."

2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1893)
"In describing a mechanical phenomenon, we limit our attention to the mechanical change. We do not mean to say that the body moved does not possess chemical, ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine (1857)
"To the Editors of the Mechanics' Magaxine. GENTLEMEN,—Allow me to explain the " mechanical phenomenon," alluded to by Thomas Crosfield in your last number. ..."

4. The Principles of the Critical Philosophy by Alois Riehl (1894)
"If by the principle of the conservation of energy the latter is a mechanical phenomenon, not subject to caprice, so is the former. ..."

5. Physiological Researches on Life and Death by Xavier Bichat (1827)
"Now if absorption, was a purely mechanical phenomenon, would it undergo modifications in relation with those of the vital functions. ..."

6. Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel Manufacturers edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1857)
"GENTLEMEN, — Allow me to explain the " mechanical phenomenon," alluded to by Thomas Crosfield in your last number. The apparent motion of the two wheels was ..."

7. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1877)
"Westphal thinks that the cause of each contraction must besought in a direct mechanical phenomenon,— extension of the muscle through concussion of the ..."

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