Mechanism
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Mechanism may refer to:
- Mechanism (engineering), rigid bodies connected by joints in order to accomplish a desired force and/or motion transmission
- Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created
- Mechanism (philosophy), a theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes
- Mechanism (sociology), a theory that all social phenomena can be explained by the existence of a determinstic mechanism, much like a computer algorithm. The algorithm always starts at the same point, follows the same processes or instructions and returns to the starting point and this process repeats forever.
- Mechanism (band), a death metal band from Canada
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See also
- Machine
- Machine (mechanical)
- Linkage (mechanical)
- Mechanism design, the art of designing rules of a game to achieve a specific outcome
- Mechanism of action, the means by which a drug exerts its biological effects
- Defence mechanism, unconscious mechanisms aimed at reducing anxiety
- Reaction mechanism, the sequence of reactions by which overall chemical change occurs
- Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer
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