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meˈchanico-
used as comb. form of L. mēchanicus (see mechanic), in hyphened combinations with the sense ‘partly mechanical and partly something else’, as mechanico-acoustic, mechanico-intellectual, mechanico-material, mechanico-merciful adjs.; mechanico-chemical a., comprising mechanics and chemistry; (of phenomena) pertaining partly to mechanics and partly to chemistry; mechanico-corpuscular a., an epithet applied to the philosophy which views all phenomena, material and spiritual, as explicable by the movement of atoms according to mechanical laws; mechanico-morphic a. = mechanomorphic a.; mechanico-morphism = mechanomorphism; mechanico-physical a., of or pertaining to the philosophy which explains all phenomena as the outcome of the physical laws of the motions and interactions of matter.
1964Y. R. Chao in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 39 The *mechanico-acoustic set-up for recording speech on wax masters.
1840Smart s.v. Mechanic, The *Mechanico-chemical sciences are magnetism, electricity, galvanism, &c.
1825Coleridge Aids Refl. (1848) I. 327 The utter emptiness..of the vaunted *Mechanico-corpuscular philosophy.
1870Emerson Soc. & Solit. vii. 131 [Steam] is yet coming to render many higher services of a *mechanico-intellectual kind.
1920D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 9 The strike situation..is a *mechanico-material struggle, two mechanical forces pulling asunder from the central object, the bone.
1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. vi. (1878) 70 Stepping over many single leaves in a *mechanico-merciful way.
1937Mind XLVI. 176 We wish to stress here what we conceive to be the inadequacy of all ‘*mechanico-morphic’ representations of concrete becoming in nature.
1935J. Murphy tr. Schrödinger's Sci. & Human Temperament Introd. 19 We must..abandon the mechanical structure. We must turn to the statistical concept... In other words, Schrödinger pleads for the abandonment of what may be called *mechanico-morphism in the pursuit of natural science,..the casting aside of all models and the wholesale employment of mathematical formulas in their stead.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 666 The modern *mechanico-physical philosophy..which..includes the nebular cosmogony, the conservation of energy, the kinetic theory of heat and gases, etc.,..begins by saying that..the only laws [are] the changes of motion which changes in collocation bring. |