mechanical

/mi-ˈka-ni-kəl/

adjective

  1. of or relating to machinery or tools

  2. produced or operated by a machine or tool

  3. of or relating to manual operations

spontaneous impulsive instinctive automatic mechanical mean acting or activated without deliberation. spontaneous implies lack of prompting and connotes naturalness. impulsive implies acting under stress of emotion or spirit of the moment.

noun

  1. a piece of finished copy consisting typically of type proofs and artwork positioned and mounted for photomechanical reproduction

  2. mechanic

noun

  1. the advantage gained by the use of a mechanism in transmitting force; specifically : the ratio of the force that performs the useful work of a machine to the force that is applied to the machine