Contrivance vs Mechanism - What's the difference?
contrivance | mechanism | Synonyms |
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
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something overly artful or artificial
Within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
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A group of objects or parts that interact together. (as in Political machine )
A mental, physical or chemical process.
(philosophy) A theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
Contrivance is a synonym of mechanism.
As nouns the difference between contrivance and mechanism
is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while mechanism is within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.contrivance
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Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
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Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism —known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.}}