<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an assembly of moving parts performing a complete functional motion, often being part of a large machine; linkage.</li><li>the agency or means by which an effect is produced or a purpose is accomplished.</li><li>machinery or mechanical appliances in general.</li><li>the structure or arrangement of parts of a machine or similar device, or of anything analogous.</li><li>the mechanical part of something; any mechanical device: the mechanism of a clock.</li><li>routine methods or procedures; mechanics: the mechanism of government.</li><li>mechanical execution, as in painting or music; technique.</li><li>the theory that everything in the universe is produced by matter in motion; materialism.</li><li>Philosophy: the view that all natural processes are explicable in terms of classical mechanics.</li><li>the view that all biological processes may be described in physicochemical terms.</li><li>Psychoanalysis: the habitual operation and interaction of psychological forces within an individual that assist in interpreting or dealing with the physical or psychological environment.</li></ul>