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Mechanism vs Mechanist - What's the difference?

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Mechanism is a related term of mechanist.


As nouns the difference between mechanism and mechanist

is that mechanism is within a machine or machinery; any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power while mechanist is a person who takes a mechanical view.

mechanism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
    • , author=(Henry Petroski) , title=Opening Doors , volume=100, issue=2, page=112-3 , magazine= 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.}}
  • 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.

    • Derived terms

    * defense mechanism * reaction mechanism

    mechanist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who takes a mechanical view
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 16, David Brooks, An Economy of Faith and Trust, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The economic spirit of a people cannot be manipulated in as simple-minded a fashion as the Keynesian mechanists imagine. }}
  • (archaic) A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

    • Related terms

    * mechanistic * mechanistically * mechanism

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