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Another word for mechanism

Noun

  1. That by which something is accomplished or some end achieved

    2. See also:

    means

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Another word for mechanism

Noun
    2. See also:

    tool

    device

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • The first mechanism is the creation of things, an old and familiar approach.

  • And, after all, not even our knowledge of the mechanism of nature is a knowledge of reality.

  • But no one had any idea of the mechanism by which this could be achieved.

  • Final causes, vital and mental forces, the soul itself can, if they act at all, only act through the inexorable mechanism of natural laws.

  • Mechanism is that which obeys impulses from outside.

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