Noun: mechanics
Sample Sentences
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the mechanics of a board game
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It was anticipated that children who encountered difficulty with the mechanics of word processing could turn to the coach for help rather than interrupt Margaret's work with a reading group. [1991, Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Cynthia L. Paris, Jessica L. Kahn, Learning to Write Differently, page 99:]
Nouns inflected like mechanics
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
3. Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)
4. Proto-Indo-European *-kos
5. Proto-Hellenic *-kos
6. Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
7. Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
8. Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós)bor.
9. Latin mēchanicusbor.
10. English mechanics
11. From Latin mēchanicus, from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine, tool”). See: Latin Nouns '
mēchanicus'.
Verbs referencing "mechanics"
Finnish Nouns
mekaniikka.