mechanisticmech‧a‧nis‧tic /ˌmekəˈnɪstɪk◂/ adjective

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