mechanisms

NOUN

machine, device

Synonyms

STRONGEST

instrument structure system tool

STRONG

apparatus appliance components contrivance doohickey gadget gears gimmick innards machinery motor workings works

WEAK

black box

NOUN

means, method

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agency operation procedure process system technique

STRONG

execution functioning medium performance workings

Antonyms

STRONG

failure

Example Sentences

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Wadhwa is a researcher with the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution and assistant professor with the Department of Physics at ASU.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026

At Dance Base in the Grassmarket, 10-year-old Alfie is making his Fringe debut in 'The Show for Young Men', and 81-year-old Christine Thynne will make her solo debut in 'These Mechanisms'.

From BBC • Aug. 1, 2024

Mechanisms that convince private developers to produce long-term affordable housing offer what is as close to a free lunch on this crisis as L.A. is ever likely to get.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 1, 2024

They should be seen for what they are: Mechanisms that will entrench that world for some time to come.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2022

The place of classification in kinematic synthesis is suggested in Ferdinand Freudenstein's "Trends in Kinematics of Mechanisms," Applied Mechanics Reviews, September 1959, vol.

From Kinematics of Mechanisms from the Time of Watt by Ferguson, Eugene S.