(engineering) The subfield of engineering concerned with designing and building machines and mechanical systems.

The ratio of the output force produced by a machine (especially a simple machine) to the applied input force.

To equip something with machinery. / To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles. / To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.

In a mechanical manner.

Referring to a period before the mechanization of farming or some other human activity.

The use of machinery to replace human or animal labour, especially in agriculture and industry.

(chemistry) the ordered set of individual reactions whose overall effect is given by a chemical equation

(physics) Of, or relating to statistical mechanics.

(dated) One skilled in the theory or construction of machines. / (dated) One skilled in building, using, or repairing machines, or who makes machines or tools. / (dated) One skilled in mechanics.

(physics) Early classical mechanics as propounded by Isaac Newton, especially that based on his laws of motion and theory of gravity.