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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 Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

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 Bennett, Edward T.