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Gunpowder :: Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting..

Power :: Power (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc..

Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)..

Mechanical :: Mechanical (a.) Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits..

Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

Plating :: Plating (n.) The art or process of covering anything with a plate or plates, or with metal, particularly of overlaying a base or dull metal with a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition..

Mechanist :: Mechanist (n.) One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

Madrier :: Madrier (n.) A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes.

Calorimeter :: Calorimeter (n.) An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc..

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Perfunctory :: Perfunctory (a.) Hence: Mechanical; indifferent; listless; careless.

Gunter''s Line :: Gunter's line () A logarithmic line on Gunter's scale, used for performing the multiplication and division of numbers mechanically by the dividers; -- called also line of lines, and line of numbers..

Photomechanical :: Photomechanical (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, any photographic process in which a printing surface is obtained without the intervention of hand engraving..

Chyle :: Chyle (n.) A milky fluid containing the fatty matter of the food in a state of emulsion, or fine mechanical division; formed from chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct..

Orthopraxy :: Orthopraxy (n.) The treatment of deformities in the human body by mechanical appliances.

Pneumatics :: Pneumatics (n.) That branch of science which treats of the mechanical properties of air and other elastic fluids, as of their weight, pressure, elasticity, etc. See Mechanics..

Melopiano :: Melopiano (n.) A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.

Mechanograph :: Mechanograph (n.) One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.

Tinker :: Tinker (v. i.) To busy one's self in mending old kettles, pans, etc.; to play the tinker; to be occupied with small mechanical works..

Compensator :: Compensator (n.) One who, or that which, compensates; -- a name applied to various mechanical devices..

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