Phrase Hound found 9 phrases and 12 compound words that contain mechanisms. The most common are listed below. Open mechanisms in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 9
- control mechanismsplural of control mechanism: Any mechanical (or other) system used to keep one or more variable parameters constant, or within specified bounds.
- mechanisms of deathplural of mechanism of death: The proximate cause of a person's death relating to the biological processes (rather than external cause) that lead to decease.
- defense mechanismsplural of defense mechanism: A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.
- defence mechanismsplural of defence mechanism: A psychological strategy used unconsciously by people to cope with harmful or stressful situations.
- coping mechanismsplural of coping mechanism: A conscious, subconscious or unconscious thought process or behavior that a person habitually employs in order to cope with a particular type of situation.
- reaction mechanismsplural of reaction mechanism: the ordered set of individual reactions whose overall effect is given by a chemical equation
- Geneva mechanismsplural of Geneva mechanism: A mechanism that translates a continuous rotation into an intermittent rotary motion, using an intermittent gear where the drive wheel has a pin that reaches into a slot of the driven wheel and thereby advances …
- servo-mechanismsplural of servo-mechanism: A mechanical device for controlling large amounts of power by means of smaller amounts of power and correcting the performance of the device using feedback.
- Grotthuss mechanismsplural of Grotthuss mechanism: The process by which an excess proton diffuses through the hydrogen bond network of water molecules or other hydrogen-bonded liquids through the formation and concomitant cleavage of covalent bonds involving …
Compound words 12
- automechanismsplural of automechanism: An automatic mechanism.
- biomechanismsplural of biomechanism: biological mechanism
- cryptomechanismsplural of cryptomechanism: A cryptographic mechanism.
- immunomechanismsplural of immunomechanism: An immunological mechanism (mode of action)
- micromechanismsplural of micromechanism: Any mechanism whose components are smaller than a millimeter
- nanomechanismsplural of nanomechanism: Any nanoscale mechanism.
- neuromechanismsplural of neuromechanism: A neural mechanism
- pathomechanismsplural of pathomechanism: pathological mechanism; the mechanism by which a pathological condition occurs
- pyromechanismsplural of pyromechanism: A mechanism operated by an explosion
- servomechanismsplural of servomechanism: A mechanical device for controlling large amounts of power by means of smaller amounts of power and correcting the performance of the device using feedback.