- Contrivance, workings - Machine’s moving parts - Mechanical apparatus - Way a machine works - The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine;
the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation
of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the
mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism
of a seed pod. - Mechanical operation or action. - An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies
constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative
movements.