mechanistic

Word family

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mech·a·nis·tic /ˌmekəˈnɪstɪk◂/ adjective SYSTEMtending to explain the behaviour of things in the natural world as if they were machines 机械论的 a mechanistic view of the universe 对宇宙的机械论观点 —mechanistically /-kli/ adverb

Examples from the Corpus

mechanistic• The results tell us a great deal about the mechanistic basis of interfacial activation.• Cost effectiveness estimates should not be used in a mechanistic fashion; at best they provide a useful aid for decision making.• Whenever observations emerged that did not fit the mechanistic model, they were dismissed as insignificant anomalies.• Burns and Stalker found that organic structures were better able to respond to change than mechanistic ones.• One they describe as mechanistic, the other as organic.• We have seen the mechanistic thrust of literacy discourse in the past five years.• By the time of the Romantics, one hundred fifty years later, the mechanistic worldview had spread much further.• The universe is far more nonlinear than the mechanistic worldview has allowed us to see.