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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"By dissecting which immune cells are involved and how they coordinate the response, we're offering vaccine developers some additional mechanistic insights to consider in their goal of optimizing these vaccines against tumor proteins."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
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
Both these arguments thus depended on prior acceptance of the mechanistic or corpuscular philosophy, according to which matter is passive and always acted on from outside.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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