Noun

(en-noun)

(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.

* 1997 , Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide

Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.

* 2002 , Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation

A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.

* 2006 , Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki

Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...

* 2007 , Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire

Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.

* 2007 , Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime (page 170)

* 2011 , Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies (page 275)

In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

Noun

(en noun)

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

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(archaic) A vehicle operated mechanically; an automobile.

(telephony, abbreviation) An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

(computing) A computer.

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

* Landor

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

(Addison)

(euphemistic, obsolete) Penis.

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