The most widely used air purifier technology is what’s known as mechanical filtration.
Can an air purifier help protect you from COVID-19?|dzanemorris|August 22, 2020|Fortune
You’ll also recall when the Tip-Top Canning Company got their first mechanical tomato harvester.
How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Ep. 386 Rebroadcast)|Stephen J. Dubner|August 6, 2020|Freakonomics
The contortions are essential for stable gliding, mechanical engineer Isaac Yeaton and colleagues report June 29 in Nature Physics.
Here’s how flying snakes stay aloft|Emily Conover|June 29, 2020|Science News
While bits in a conventional computer can only adopt the values of 1 or 0, the qubits at the heart of a quantum computer can adopt multiple combinations of 1 or 0 at the same time thanks to the quantum mechanical phenomena of superposition.
A New Startup Intends to Build the World’s First Large-Scale Quantum Computer|Edd Gent|June 22, 2020|Singularity Hub
Almost as soon as she had arrived at the hospital she needed help breathing with a mechanical ventilator, a sign of “how sick her lungs already were,” said Elizabeth Malsin, a pulmonary and critical care specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
A critically ill COVID-19 patient just got a double lung transplant|Aimee Cunningham|June 11, 2020|Science News
He once told me that he only vaguely understood “the mechanical aspects of sex” until he was in his early twenties.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days|David Freeman|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Three of the six members of the group work on the channel full time, but Sep has a full time job as a mechanical engineer.
The Addictive Curse of ‘Let’s Plays’|Tom Sykes|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M-60 machine gun.
War Is Hell and Such Good Fun|Don Gomez|November 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As a result, the images can be much more detailed and the equipment less subject to mechanical problems.
The USSR’s Race to the Moon’s Far Side|Matthew R. Francis|October 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
These are, in mechanical terms, simple fixes; politically, a nigh-impossible slog.
How to Make Campaign Finance Reform Sexy|Nancy Kaffer|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Man is far superior in dealing with numbers and also with tools and mechanical things.
Psychology|Robert S. Woodworth
A mechanical banjo suddenly added its metallic noise to the din, fit music, it seemed, for such obscene company.
The Duke Of Chimney Butte|G. W. Ogden
No insignificant proof this of the mechanical skill of the eleventh century.
The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed.|Elizabeth Stone
At this stage Watt himself was more fertile in mechanical inventions than in any other portion of his busy life.
Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 of 8|Various
The circumstances to which I allude date back to the Exposition of 1844, when I submitted my automata and mechanical curiosities.
Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, ambassador, author and conjurer|Jean Henri Robert-Houdin
British Dictionary definitions for mechanical
mechanical
/ (mɪˈkænɪkəl) /
adjective
made, performed, or operated by or as if by a machine or machinerya mechanical process
concerned with machines or machinery
relating to or controlled or operated by physical forces
of or concerned with mechanics
(of a gesture, etc) automatic; lacking thought, feeling, etc
philosophyaccounting for phenomena by physically determining forces
(of paper, such as newsprint) made from pulp that has been mechanically ground and contains impurities