mechanistic
Americanadjective
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philosophy of or relating to the theory of mechanism
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maths of or relating to mechanics
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Origin of mechanistic
Example Sentences
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He calls it a "mechanistic world model", which will structure knowledge in a way the AI can use efficiently.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
"Our approach enabled us to isolate specific genetic and immune factors, then translate those signatures to human brain scans, showing that different connectivity patterns encode different mechanistic pathways underlying autism."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026
"With aging, problems mysteriously emerge at many levels -- at the mechanistic, cellular, and organ level -- but one commonality is that all those processes are mediated by proteins," Frydman said.
From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026
The 43-minute work for four couples is set to austere and mechanistic piano pieces, inspiring a succession of solo, duo and grouped choreographic configurations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 13, 2026
A gene is more than a set of protein-building instructions, but Beadle and Tatum’s experiments provided a mechanistic basis for a gene’s function.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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