mechanical

Connected with machines, their parts, or how they are designed and built.

• The car has a mechanical problem.
• She designs mechanical devices for factories.
• A mechanical fault stopped the lift between floors.

Common phrases: mechanical device, mechanical fault, mechanical engineer

Carried out by a machine rather than by a person using their hands.

• Mechanical cleaning saves time.
• The farm introduced mechanical harvesting last year.
• Mechanical sorting separates the seeds by size.

Similar words: machine-operated, automated

Opposites: manual

Common phrases: mechanical harvesting, mechanical cleaning, mechanical sorting

Connected with the physical forces that make objects move or change shape.

• The wheel stores mechanical energy.
• We measured the mechanical properties of the material.
• Mechanical stress can cause cracks in the metal.

Common phrases: mechanical energy, mechanical force, mechanical properties