Explore Mechanistic through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like mechanical. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mechanistic meaning
- Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine.
- Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism.
- Having a physical or biological cause.
Synonyms of Mechanistic
Using Mechanistic
- The main meaning on this page is: Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine. | Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism. | Having a physical or biological cause.
- Useful related words include: mechanical, philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory.
- In the example corpus, mechanistic often appears in combinations such as: the mechanistic, mechanistic understanding, and mechanistic.
Context around Mechanistic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mechanistic
- In this selection, "mechanistic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mentioned, fully, provides, explanations, overlap and behavior stand out and add context to how "mechanistic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a fully mechanistic life support and empirical and mechanistic vision of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mechanistic" sits close to words such as abra, accies and accommodative, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mechanistic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Bergson disputed what he saw as Spencer's mechanistic philosophy. (10 words)
De Rerum Natura provides mechanistic explanations for phenomena such as erosion, evaporation, wind, and sound. (15 words)
Huxley’s mechanistic attitude towards the body convinced him that the brain alone causes behavior. (15 words)
Even his vision of the world underwent a radical change: he ceased to seek comfort in religion, which permeated his childhood, and became increasingly inclined toward an empirical and mechanistic vision of the universe inspired by John Locke among others. (40 words)
In the extreme, exemplified by The Feminists, the upshot, according to Ellen Willis, was "unworkable, mechanistic demands for an absolutely random division of labor, taking no account of differences in skill, experience, or even inclination". (35 words)
He suggests that the mechanistic explanations of the world that have continued from Laplace to Richard Dawkins should be replaced by an understanding that most of nature is cloud-like rather than clock-like. (34 words)
And with regards to AXS-12 or reboxetine, you mentioned mechanistic overlap with Sunosi and how would we think about the two products? (23 words)
Example sentences (20)
And with regards to AXS-12 or reboxetine, you mentioned mechanistic overlap with Sunosi and how would we think about the two products?
This mechanistic behavior can also be avoided by salting prompts with random numbers or otherwise including some output-variety function, but this must not be mistaken for cogitation of any real kind.
D. program working on a mechanistic problem and the synthesis of natural perfume constituent, beta-vetivone.
To fully specify a mechanistic model, we have to give actual values to single feature of the model.
Confirmation of these findings in additional patients and mechanistic follow-up experiments in rodent models could help further outline the central mechanisms underlying the long-term response to bariatric surgery in humans.
Although a fully mechanistic life support system is conceivable, a closed ecological system is generally proposed for life support.
Bergson disputed what he saw as Spencer's mechanistic philosophy.
Complexity This is a schematic representation of three types of mathematical models of complex systems with the level of their mechanistic understanding.
De Rerum Natura provides mechanistic explanations for phenomena such as erosion, evaporation, wind, and sound.
Even his vision of the world underwent a radical change: he ceased to seek comfort in religion, which permeated his childhood, and became increasingly inclined toward an empirical and mechanistic vision of the universe inspired by John Locke among others.
For example, phosphorylating glucose is necessary for insulin-dependent mechanistic target of rapamycin pathway activity within the heart.
Furthermore, they generally have positive enthalpies of formation and there is little mechanistic hindrance to internal molecular rearrangement to yield the more thermodynamically stable (more strongly bonded) decomposition products.
Further, the field aims to unify a diverse range of empirical observations by assuming that common, mechanistic processes generate observable phenomena across species and ecological environments.
He had lost faith in Russell, finding him glib and his philosophy mechanistic, and felt he had fundamentally misunderstood the Tractatus.
He returned to embryology and worked to encourage the spread of genetics research to other organisms and the spread of the mechanistic experimental approach (Enwicklungsmechanik) to all biological fields.
He suggests that the mechanistic explanations of the world that have continued from Laplace to Richard Dawkins should be replaced by an understanding that most of nature is cloud-like rather than clock-like.
Huxley’s mechanistic attitude towards the body convinced him that the brain alone causes behavior.
In the extreme, exemplified by The Feminists, the upshot, according to Ellen Willis, was "unworkable, mechanistic demands for an absolutely random division of labor, taking no account of differences in skill, experience, or even inclination".
Just as land became recognized as natural capital and an asset in itself, human factors of production were raised from this simple mechanistic analysis to human capital.
Mechanistic inorganic chemistry An important and increasingly popular aspect of inorganic chemistry focuses on reaction pathways.
Common combinations with mechanistic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: