Mechanical vs Mechanosensing - What's the difference?
mechanical | mechanosensing |
Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
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Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
Done by machine.
Using mechanics (the design and construction of machines): being a machine.
As if performed by a machine: lifeless or mindless.
(of a person) Acting as if one were a machine: lifeless or mindless.
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, title= (informal) Handy with machines.
(biology) Responsivity to mechanical stimuli, especially at the cellular level or below
*{{quote-book, 2005, S.R.K. Vedula et al., chapter=Role of external physical forces in cell signal transduction, Biomechanics at micro- and nanoscale levels
, passage=Mechanosensing is probably the least understood aspect of the whole process of mechanotransduction.}}
As an adjective mechanical
is characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.As a noun mechanosensing is
(biology) responsivity to mechanical stimuli, especially at the cellular level or below.mechanical
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(en adjective)- all manner of silks were already become so vile and abject, that was any man seene to weare them, he was presently judged to be some countrie fellow, or mechanicall man.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
Derived terms
* electromechanical * mechanical erasure * mechanicality * mechanically * mechanicalness * mechanical pencil * postmechanical * premechanicalmechanosensing
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