释义 |
mechaˈnistically, adv. [f. mechanistic a.] In a mechanistic manner; on mechanistic principles.
1923W. McDougall Outl. Psychol. vi. 189 One attempt to explain mechanistically this fundamental type of profiting by experience has been widely accepted. 1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place ii. 77 The attempts which have been made..to treat mental phenomena mechanistically. 1935Mind XLIV. 88 If you show that mental activity has independent causal powers, and that it works purposively and not mechanistically, surely [etc.]. 1947J. C. Rich Materials & Methods of Sculpture xi. 350 Metal negative molds..are used commercially for mechanistically manufacturing papier mâché reproductions in large quantities. 1961N. & Q. June 237/2 Mr. White's method is usually to utter a few simple principles about the art of fiction..and then test them rather mechanistically against his author's four novels. 1971Nature 25 June 495/2 This situation looks unlikely to change, unless there is more collaboration in the design of mechanistically meaningful experiments. 1974Frith & McLauchlan in R. K. Harris Nucl. Magn. Resonance III. xii. 393 CIDNP is normally most useful mechanistically when performed in the high field of a normal spectrometer. |