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Another word for mechanism

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mechanism

n.

working parts, mechanical action, system of parts; see device 1, tool 1.

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Another word for mechanism

noun

That by which something is accomplished or some end achieved:

agency, agent, instrument, instrumentality, instrumentation, intermediary, mean³ (used in plural), medium, organ. See means

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The first mechanism is the creation of things, an old and familiar approach.
But no one had any idea of the mechanism by which this could be achieved.
And, after all, not even our knowledge of the mechanism of nature is a knowledge of reality.
Mechanism is that which obeys impulses from outside.
Final causes, vital and mental forces, the soul itself can, if they act at all, only act through the inexorable mechanism of natural laws.

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