MECHANICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mechanically mean? 

• MECHANICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb MECHANICALLY has 2 senses:

1. in a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

2. in a machinelike manner; without feeling

  Familiarity information: MECHANICALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MECHANICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a mechanical manner; by a mechanism

Synonyms:

automatically; mechanically

Context example:

this door opens mechanically

Pertainym:

mechanical (relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In a machinelike manner; without feeling

Context example:

he smiled mechanically

Pertainym:

mechanical (using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices)

 Context examples 

“No, thank you!” said Mr. Spenlow, coldly, as I mechanically offered them back to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A procedure in which the blood supply to the tumor is blocked surgically or mechanically and anticancer drugs are administered directly into the tumor.

(Chemoembolization, NCI Dictionary)

Mechanically he reached for the empty gun, drew a bead, and pulled the trigger.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

One property that distinguishes these materials from traditional semiconductors like silicon is that they are mechanically flexible.

(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

As he read, mechanically his hand sought his pocket for the tobacco and brown paper of his old cigarette days.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I found myself mechanically bowing and shaking hands with a little ginger-haired man who was coiled up in the deep arm-chair which had once been sacred to my own use.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Instead of answering, Harriet turned away confused, and stood thoughtfully by the fire; and though the letter was still in her hand, it was now mechanically twisted about without regard.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is transmitted mechanically by biting flies, mosquitoes, and midges, and iatrogenically through unsterilized equipment.

(Equine Infectious Anemia Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes piezo-type mechanosensitive ion channel component 1 protein, is involved in mechanically regulated ion transport.

(PIEZO1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)