Mechanism



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 结构, 机制
• ［英］ n. 结构, 机制 ( the arrangement and action of the parts of a machine)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1662
• 1.
  • a. a piece of machinery
  • b. a process, technique, or system for achieving a result
• 2. mechanical operation or action ; working 2
• 3. a doctrine that holds natural processes (as of life) to be mechanically determined and capable of complete explanation by the laws of physics and chemistry
• 4. the fundamental processes involved in or responsible for an action, reaction, or other natural phenomenon <mechanisms of organic evolution> — compare defense mechanism

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