mechanisms

NOUN

machine, device

Synonyms

STRONGEST

instrument structure system tool

STRONG

apparatus appliance components contrivance doohickey gadget gears gimmick innards machinery motor workings works

WEAK

black box

NOUN

means, method

Synonyms

STRONGEST

agency operation procedure process system technique

STRONG

execution functioning medium performance workings

Antonyms

STRONG

failure

Example Sentences

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The events have triggered the largest known deployment of the EU civil protection mechanism's firefighting force.

From BBC • Aug. 27, 2025

This leads to cells moving faster and more persistently, indicating a loss of the brake mechanism's control over cell migration.

From Science Daily • Apr. 24, 2024

"The mechanism's current design may increase volatility and related margin calls, challenge central counterparties' ability to manage financial risks, and may also incentivise migration from trading venues to the non-centrally cleared over-the-counter market," it added.

From Reuters • Dec. 8, 2022

The Antikythera mechanism’s design uses several of the Babylonian period relations.

From Scientific American • Dec. 14, 2021

In it Martians and centipede-machines were coming and going in great numbers, but none noticed the human forms of the two crouched low in their mechanism's control room.

From Astounding Stories, April, 1931 by Various