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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
nonhuman \nonhuman\ adjective not human. Opposite of {human}. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike}; {bloodless}; {dehumanized, unhuman}; {grotesque, monstrous, unnatural}; {mechanical}] [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mechanical \Me*chan"ic*al\, adjective [From {Mechanic}, adjective]
1. Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter on a macroscopic scale, as distinguished from {mental}, {vital}, {chemical}, {electrical}, {electronic}, {atomic} etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; especially, using only the interactions of solid parts against each other; as mechanical brakes, in contrast to {hydraulic} brakes. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
We have also divers mechanical arts. --Bacon.
3. Done as if by a machine; uninfluenced by will or emotion; proceeding automatically, or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.
4. Made and operated by interaction of forces without a directing intelligence; as, a mechanical universe.
5. Obtained by trial, by measurements, etc.; approximate; empirical. See the 2d Note under {Geometric}.
{Mechanical effect}, effective power; useful work exerted, as by a machine, in a definite time.
{Mechanical engineering}. See the Note under {Engineering}.
{Mechanical maneuvers} (Mil.), the application of mechanical appliances to the mounting, dismounting, and moving of artillery. --Farrow.
{Mechanical philosophy}, the principles of mechanics applied to the investigation of physical phenomena.
{Mechanical powers}, certain simple instruments, such as the lever and its modifications (the wheel and axle and the pulley), the inclined plane with its modifications (the screw and the wedge), which convert a small force acting through a great space into a great force acting through a small space, or vice versa, and are used separately or in combination.
{Mechanical solution} (Math.), a solution of a problem by any art or contrivance not strictly geometrical, as by means of the ruler and compasses, or other instruments.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mechanical \Me*chan"ic*al\, noun A mechanic. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mechanical
adjective
1: using (or as if using) mechanisms or tools or devices; "a mechanical process"; "his smile was very mechanical"; "a mechanical toy" [ant: {nonmechanical}]
2: relating to or concerned with machinery or tools; "mechanical arts"; "mechanical design"; "mechanical skills" [syn: {mechanically skillful}]
3: relating to or governed by or in accordance with mechanics; "a belief that the universe is a mechanical contrivance"; "the mechanical pressure of a strong wind"
4: lacking thought or feeling [syn: {mechanistic}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
89 Moby Thesaurus words for "mechanical": accordant, aeromechanical, alike, automated, automatic, balanced, biomechanical, blind, cold, colorless, compulsive, conditioned, consistent, consonant, constant, continuous, correspondent, dead, distant, equable, equal, even, flat, forced, habitual, homogeneous, immutable, impersonal, impulsive, inanimate, insensible, instinctive, invariable, involuntary, level, lifeless, locomotive, locomotor, machinal, machine-made, machinelike, matter-of-fact, measured, mechanistic, mechanized, methodic, monolithic, of a piece, ordered, orderly, perfunctory, persistent, power-driven, powered, reflex, reflexive, regular, ritualistic, robotlike, routine, smooth, spiritless, stable, steadfast, steady, systematic, unanimated, unartistic, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, unconscious, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, unemotional, unfeeling, uniform, uninspired, unintentional, unruffled, unthinking, unvaried, unvarying, unwilled, unwilling, unwitting, zoomechanical
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