- Look up
mechanism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Mechanism may
refer to:
Mechanism (engineering),
rigid bodies connected by
joints in
order to accomplish...
- The
Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntɪkɪˈθɪərə/ AN-tih-kih-THEER-ə) is an
Ancient Gr**** hand-powered orrery,
described as the
oldest known example of an analogue...
- In
psychoanalytic theory, a
defence mechanism (American English:
defense mechanism), is an
unconscious psychological operation that
functions to protect...
- the
Higgs mechanism is
essential to
explain the
generation mechanism of the
property "m****" for
gauge bosons.
Without the
Higgs mechanism, all bosons...
- a
reaction mechanism is the step by step
sequence of
elementary reactions by
which overall chemical reaction occurs. A
chemical mechanism is a theoretical...
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Mechanism design is a
field in
economics and game
theory that
takes an objectives-first
approach to
designing economic mechanisms or incentives, toward...
- investigated.
Studying an enzyme's
kinetics in this way can
reveal the
catalytic mechanism of this enzyme, its role in metabolism, how its
activity is controlled...
- The
Berry mechanism, or
Berry pseudorotation mechanism, is a type of
vibration causing molecules of
certain geometries to
isomerize by
exchanging the two...
-
describing mechanisms that
could produce the phenomena. For example,
natural selection is a
mechanism of
biological evolution;
other mechanisms of evolution...
- engineering, a
mechanism is a
device that
transforms input forces and
movement into a
desired set of
output forces and movement.
Mechanisms generally consist...
