(within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.

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

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

plural of mechanism

simple past tense and past participle of mechanize

Equipped with machinery. / (military) Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare motorized (“equipped with unarmoured vehicles”).

present participle of mechanize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mechanize

A person who or machine that mechanizes.

plural of mechanizer