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Mechanics vs Procedure - What's the difference?

mechanics | procedure |

As nouns the difference between mechanics and procedure

is that mechanics is the branch of physics that deals with the action of forces on material objects with mass while procedure is a particular method for performing a task.

mechanics

English

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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    procedure

    English

    (wikipedia procedure)

    Noun

  • A particular method for performing a task.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • A series of small tasks or steps taken to accomplish an end.
  • (label) The set of established forms or methods of an organized body for accomplishing a certain task or tasks.
  • The steps taken in an action or other legal proceeding.
  • * (Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
    • Gracious procedures .
  • (label) That which results; issue; product.
    • (Bacon)
  • (label) A subroutine or function coded to perform a specific task.
  • (label) A surgical operation.

    • Synonyms

    * (method) algorithm, method, process, routine * (set of established forms or methods of an organized body) protocol * (computing) function, routine, sub, subroutine, method (although some of these have slightly differing meanings in some programming languages) * (medicine) operation

    Related terms

    * administrative procedure * proceed * process * procession

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