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My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
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Meaning of "mechanistic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MECHANISTIC

mechanistic  [ˌmɛkəˈnɪstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MECHANISTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Mechanistic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES MECHANISTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Mechanical philosophy

The mechanical philosophy is a term for an aspect of the scientific revolution of Early Modern Europe, in which an innovative branch of natural philosophy arose in the period about 1620 to 1650, describing the universe as similar to a large-scale mechanism.

Definition of mechanistic in the English dictionary

The definition of mechanistic in the dictionary is of or relating to the theory of mechanism. Other definition of mechanistic is of or relating to mechanics.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MECHANISTIC


agonistic
ˌæɡəˈnɪstɪk
anachronistic
əˌnækrəˈnɪstɪk
antagonistic
ænˌtæɡəˈnɪstɪk
Calvinistic
ˌkælvɪˈnɪstɪk
chauvinistic
ˌʃəʊvɪˈnɪstɪk
communistic
ˌkɒmjʊˈnɪstɪk
deterministic
dɪˌtɜːmɪˈnɪstɪk
faunistic
ˌfɔːˈnɪstɪk
feministic
ˌfemɪˈnɪstɪk
hedonistic
ˌhiːdəˈnɪstɪk
Hellenistic
ˌhɛlɪˈnɪstɪk
humanistic
ˌhjuːməˈnɪstɪk
impressionistic
ɪmˌprɛʃəˈnɪstɪk
misogynistic
ˌmɪsɒdʒɪˈnɪstɪk
modernistic
ˌmɒdəˈnɪstɪk
opportunistic
ˌɒpətjʊˈnɪstɪk
perfectionistic
pəˌfɛkʃəˈnɪstɪk
pianistic
ˌpiːəˈnɪstɪk
synchronistic
ˌsɪŋkrəˈnɪstɪk
urbanistic
ˌɜːbəˈnɪstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MECHANISTIC

mechanical equivalent of heat
mechanical impedance
mechanical instrument
mechanical shovel
mechanicalism
mechanically
mechanically recovered meat
mechanicalness
mechanician
mechanics
mechanisable
mechanise
mechaniser
mechanism
mechanist
mechanistically
mechanizable
mechanization
mechanize
mechanizer

WORDS THAT END LIKE MECHANISTIC

artistic
autistic
ballistic
characteristic
domestic
futuristic
heuristic
holistic
journalistic
linguistic
logistic
minimalistic
optimistic
probabilistic
realistic
sadistic
simplistic
statistic
stylistic
synergistic
unrealistic

Synonyms and antonyms of mechanistic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «mechanistic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MECHANISTIC

Find out the translation of mechanistic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of mechanistic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «mechanistic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

机械
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mecanicista
570 millions of speakers

English

mechanistic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

यंत्रवत
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الآلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

механистический
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mecanicista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অধিযন্ত্রবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mécaniste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mekanistik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

mechanistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

機構的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

기계적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mekanisme
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc về cơ giới
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயந்திரத்தனமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

यंत्रशास्त्रीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

mekanistik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

meccanicistico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mechanistyczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

механістичний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mecanicist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μηχανιστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

meganistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mekanistisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

mekanistisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of mechanistic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MECHANISTIC»

The term «mechanistic» is quite widely used and occupies the 37.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MECHANISTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about mechanistic

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7 QUOTES WITH «MECHANISTIC»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word mechanistic.
1
William A. Dembski
Give us detailed, testable, mechanistic accounts for the origin of life, the origin of the genetic code, the origin of ubiquitous bio macromolecules and assemblages like the ribosome, and the origin of molecular machines like the bacterial flagellum, and intelligent design will die a quick and painless death.
2
Stanislav Grof
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
3
Michael Hirst
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
4
Jonathan Kozol
I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers.
5
Gero Miesenbock
I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.
6
Mark Pagel
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.
7
Ellen Willis
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MECHANISTIC»

Discover the use of mechanistic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to mechanistic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mechanistic Toxicology: The Molecular Basis of How Chemicals ...
Extensively illustrated, this book forms a conceptual bridge between multiple events at the molecular level and the determinants of toxicity at the physiological and cellular level.
Urs A. Boelsterli, 2007
2
Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: A Critique of the ...
This book deals with the major philosophical issues in the theoretical framework of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in particular and cognitive science in general.
Rajakishore Nath, 2009
3
Emulsion polymerization: a mechanistic approach
This book provides a modern overview of the principles governing emulsion polymerization, a topic of both academic and industrial importance.
Robert G. Gilbert, 1995
4
Soil Nutrient Bioavailability: A Mechanistic Approach
Chemistry of soil-nutrient associations.
Stanley A. Barber, 1995
5
A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton Ecology
"This book offers a mechanistic approach to the study of ocean ecology by exploring biological interactions in plankton at the individual level.
Thomas Kiørboe, 2008
6
Mechanistic Home Range Analysis. (MPB-43)
The models are mechanistic in the sense that the pattern of space use by an animal is calculated by an explicit mathematical scaling of these underlying rules of movement. Thus unlike instatistical home range models, the patterns of space  ...
Paul R. Moorcroft, Mark A. Lewis, 2013
7
Mechanistic Relationships Between Development and Learning
This volume reflects a highly interdisciplinary dialog among experts in the fields of development and learning and memory, who came together not only to assess the validity of the general hypotheses that development and learning might share ...
Thomas J. Carew, R. Menzel, C. J. Shatz, 1998
8
New Frontiers of Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic ...
The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposium ¿New Frontiers of Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Electrochemistry¿, held during the PRiME 2008 joint international meeting of The ...
A. Fry, 2009
9
Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Electron Transfer Reactions
The papers included in this issue of ECS Transactions were originally presented in the symposium ¿Synthetic and Mechanistic Organic Electron Transfer Reactions¿, held during the 216th meeting of The Electrochemical Society, in Vienna, ...
T. Fuchigami, G. Cheek, D. Evans, F. Maran, A. Fry, 2010
10
Structural and Mechanistic Enzymology:: Bringing Together ...
This thematic volume of Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology focuses on the recent success in structural and mechanistic enzymology and has its main emphasis on explaining the enzyme phenomena by using both the experimental ...
‎2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MECHANISTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term mechanistic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Microtubules see the light
This unique system offers a useful tool for probing mechanistic questions in microtubule biology with spatial and temporal control, and also ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
2
Why Science Doesn't Need Mice
As a result, some animals are either resistant to certain diseases or they have different mechanistic responses to diseases. Humans and other ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
T H 1 complementation
... CD28 or CTLA-4, interfere with CD46-dependent signaling pathways. Mechanistic details of these signaling cascades await future studies. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
b Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North …
Therefore, in primary resting CD4+ T cells, true mechanistic synergy in the reversal of HIV latency may be achieved by the combination of ... «Journal of Virology, Jul 15»
5
You Are A Nanoverse
And so are our bodies built up by tiny mechanistic operations, one protein at a time, until that stupendous entity we call a human being is ... «First Things, Jul 15»
6
Common mineral could hold key to improving poor soil
“This initial mechanistic understanding of the role of manganese oxides in carbon stabilisation may help in our understanding of the global ... «Brunel University News, Jul 15»
7
Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation for the …
Transcranial direct current stimulation to lessen neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury: a mechanistic PET study. Neurorehabil Neural Repair ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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A Novel Leu92 Mutant of HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase with a …
This finding indicates a mechanistic linkage between these two functions and that they are both direct and unique functions of the RT (apart ... «Journal of Virology, Jul 15»
9
Behavioral inhibition in childhood predicts smaller hippocampal …
... in turn, generate testable hypotheses regarding mechanistic paths to the reduced hippocampal volumes detected in BI+ offspring of parents ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
10
Researchers Develop Method to Sequence Secondary DNA …
"This is consistent with a mechanistic link between G4s and the sites of genomic instability, a hallmark of cancer," the authors wrote. «GenomeWeb, Jul 15»

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