electromechanical
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of electromechanical
First recorded in 1885–90; electro- + mechanical
Example Sentences
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The new machine could do tasks about 1,000 times as fast as the electromechanical calculators that preceded it, but it was unwieldy, to say the least.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
Up until the mid to late 1950s, Social Security records were stored manually or with electromechanical machines, including punched cards and early tabulating equipment.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026
Next, they performed an array of electrical and electromechanical measurements to quantify the responses of the thin films to applied electric voltage.
From Science Daily ● May 23, 2024
“When they replaced electromechanical with digital, they were just trashing it,” he says, “burying the old iron-type equipment in the junkyard.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
If you put hundreds of wires through the holes in a certain order, you would get something that looked like a rat's nest but would fit into this electromechanical machine and alter its personality.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven
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