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Mechanics vs Mechanick - What's the difference?

mechanics | mechanick |

As nouns the difference between mechanics and mechanick

is that mechanics is (physics) the branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass while mechanick is .

mechanics

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Noun

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  • (physics) The branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass
  • The design and construction of machines.
  • (writing) Spelling and punctuation.
  • operation in general; workings
    • the mechanics of a board game
  • English plurals

    • Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * aeromechanics * analytic mechanics * biomechanics * body mechanics * celestial mechanics * classical mechanics * electromechanics * fluid mechanics * gas mechanics * hereditary mechanics * hydromechanics * magnetomechanics * matrix mechanics * micromechanics * molecular mechanics * Newtonian mechanics * nonquantum mechanics * nonrelativistic mechanics * particle mechanics * quantum mechanics * rational mechanics * relativistic mechanics * rock mechanics * soil mechanics * statistical mechanics * wave mechanics

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    mechanick

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    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • * 1744 , Thomas Salmon, Modern History or the Present State of all Nations''; Volume I, ''The Present State of Proper India , Chapter XII, ?. XIX, page #279:
    • But to return to the marriages of the Jentoes, under which I comprehend all the ?ects or ca?ts of Indian idolaters, they con?tantly marry in their own tribe or ca?t, and they have as many ?everal ca?ts as they have trades or profe??ions?; a merchant will not match into a mechanick tribe, or a mechanick' into tho?e of a hu?bandman or fi?herman. ?The?e have each other in as much abhorrence as they have Chri?tians?; but what is ?tranger ?till, a '''mechanick''' of one trade will not match with a '''mechanick ’s daughter of another?; a ?mith mu?t not match into the carpenters or weavers ca?t, or either of them into a ?mith’s, and ?o of every other trade''[…]