Thesaurus / mechanism
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Europe’s busiest airport hub, London Heathrow, is working on a testing mechanism and industry executives are lobbying the British government to replace quarantines with virus tests as a means of screening arriving travelers from high-risk countries.
AIRPORT COVID TESTING HUBS AND NEW TRAVEL CORRIDORS ARE PART OF A PLAN TO REVIVE U.S.-EUROPE AIR TRAVELBERNHARD WARNERAUGUST 19, 2020FORTUNEOne is that we have to ensure that voting mechanisms are in place.
CRAIGSLIST FOUNDER CRAIG NEWMARK ON WHY HE’S DONATING MILLIONS TO JOURNALISMPIERRE BIENAIMÉAUGUST 11, 2020DIGIDAYThese are the types of mechanisms that explain why you remember salient events.
TOWARDS ‘ETERNAL SUNSHINE’? NEW LINKS FOUND BETWEEN MEMORY AND EMOTIONSHELLY FANJULY 28, 2020SINGULARITY HUB This makes it unusual, as it will allow physicists to study this new binding mechanism in detail.
CERN: PHYSICISTS REPORT THE DISCOVERY OF UNIQUE NEW PARTICLEHARRY CLIFFJULY 15, 2020SINGULARITY HUB By shutting down its brain and any sensory channels, they could determine whether a mechanism in the larvae generated Lévy walks in the absence of information about the world.
RANDOM SEARCH WIRED INTO ANIMALS MAY HELP THEM HUNTLIAM DREWJUNE 11, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEOn one hand, the mechanisms of evolution have no predisposition for change in any particular direction.
EVOLUTION: WHY IT SEEMS TO HAVE A DIRECTION AND WHAT TO EXPECT NEXTMATTHEW WILLSJUNE 10, 2020SINGULARITY HUB On the other hand, the versos, with their swivel-mount and faster breech-loading mechanisms, were effective and flexible for both solid-shot and grapeshot.
KNOW YOUR HISTORICAL WARSHIPS: FROM 7TH CENTURY BC – 17TH CENTURY ADDATTATREYA MANDALAPRIL 4, 2020REALM OF HISTORYThis however curtailed its effective range at around 75 yards, given the limited potential energy being produced by the internal mechanism.
14 EXCEPTIONAL WEAPON SYSTEMS FROM HISTORY THAT WERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIMEDATTATREYA MANDALMARCH 26, 2020REALM OF HISTORYOther labs around the world are working on similar exercise mimetics, as they’re called, with various mechanisms.
THE ZERO-MINUTE WORKOUT (EP. 383 REBROADCAST)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 2, 2020FREAKONOMICSThings that clearly could have been communicated in other mechanisms.
HOW TO MAKE MEETINGS LESS TERRIBLE (EP. 389)STEPHEN J. DUBNERSEPTEMBER 19, 2019FREAKONOMICSWORDS RELATED TO MECHANISM
- Rube Goldberg invention
- accessory
- agent
- apparatus
- appliance
- arrangement
- article
- construction
- contraption
- contrivance
- creation
- doohickey
- equipment
- expedient
- gadget
- gear
- gimmick
- implement
- invention
- machine
- makeshift
- material
- means
- mechanism
- medium
- outfit
- resort
- resource
- rigging
- shift
- tackle
- thingamabob
- utensil
- whatchamacallit
- whatnot
- whatsit
- agency
- agent
- aid
- apparatus
- auspices
- avenue
- channel
- course
- dodge
- equipment
- expedient
- factor
- fashion
- gimmick
- instrument
- instrumentality
- intermediary
- machinery
- manner
- measure
- mechanism
- medium
- ministry
- mode
- modus operandi
- organ
- organization
- paraphernalia
- path
- power
- process
- road
- route
- step
- stepping-stone
- system
- tactic
- technique
- trick
- vehicle
- ways and means
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