mechanical
adjective
having to do with machinery.
quasi-mechanical
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a word derived from
mechanical.
Example Sentences
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Pite’s movement style makes human movement quasi-mechanical, so that there can be a slightly brittle articulation within supple phrases, giving the impression that Pite has reordered segments of time.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 20, 2014
Thus he explains in quasi-mechanical terms the properties of an electron.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
He speaks of the beginning of Telepathy as a "quasi-mechanical transference of ideas and images from one to another brain."
From Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research by Edward T. Bennett
