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  • Mechanical engineering
    Mechanical engineering

    Mechanical Engineering is an engineering discipline that involves the application of physics#branches of physics for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of machine....
    , a branch of engineering concerned with the application of physical mechanics
  • HVAC
    HVAC

    HVAC is an initialism or acronym that stands for "heating, Ventilation , and air conditioning". HVAC is sometimes referred to as climate control and is particularly important in the design of medium to large industrial and office buildings such as skyscrapers and in marine environments such as aquariums, where humidity and tem...
     (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning), the mechanical systems of a building
  • Mechanical (character)
    Mechanical (character)

    A mechanical is any of six characters in A Midsummer Night's Dream who perform the story within a story Pyramus and Thisbe. Named for their occupations as mechanic, they are a group of amateur actors from around Athens, looking to make names for themselves by having their production chosen among several acts as the courtly entertai...
    , one of several characters in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  • Mechanical (Myst), one of the settings in the computer game Myst
  • Mechanical Animals
    Mechanical Animals

    Mechanical Animals is Marilyn Manson 's third full-length album, released on September 15, 1998. It was the #1 selling album on its first week of release, the first of Marilyn Manson's career....
    , the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson
  • Mechanical license
    Mechanical license

    A mechanical license is a license that grants certain limited permissions to work with, study, improve upon, reinterpret, re-record something that is neither a free content/open source item nor in the public domain....
    , used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song
  • A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification
    VOX-ATypI classification

    In typography, the Vox-ATypI classification makes it possible to classify typefaces in eleven general classes. Devised by Maximilien Vox in 1954, it was adopted in 1962 by the ATypI and in 1967 as a British Standard, as British Standards Classification of Typefaces , which is a very basic interpretation of the earlier Vox-ATypI classificatio...
Mechanical is often used as a general term to distinguish from another class of item. Mechanical may mean:
  • Machine
    Machine

    A machine is any device that uses energy to perform some activity. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work....
    , especially in opposition to an electronic item
  • Mechanical watch
    Mechanical watch

    A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a non-electric mechanism to measure the passage of time. They are driven by a spring which must be wound periodically, and releases the energy to turn the watch's wheels as it unwinds....
    , utilizing a non-electric mechanism
  • Mechanization
    Mechanization

    Mechanization or mechanisation is providing human operators with machinery to assist them with the physical requirements of work. It can also refer to the use of machines to replace manual labor or animals....
    , using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
  • Automation
    Automation

    Automation or industrial automation or numerical control is the use of control systems such as computers to control industry machinery and industrial processes, reducing the need for human intervention....
    , using machine decisions and processing instead of human
  • Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
  • Mechanism (technology)
    Mechanism (technology)

    A mechanism is some technical aspect of a larger process or mechanical device, or combination of parts designed to perform a particular function....
    , a portion of a mechanical device


See also

  • Mechanic (disambiguation)
    Mechanic (disambiguation)

    Mechanic may refer to:* Mechanic, a person who uses tools to fix and maintain machinery* Aircraft Maintenance Technician, or aircraft mechanic, a person who repairs aircraft....