Mechanical

• Mechanical engineering, a branch of engineering concerned with the application of physical mechanics
• HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning), the mechanical systems of a building

Mechanical may also refer to:

• Mechanical (character), one of several characters in Shakespeare\'s A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
• Mechanical (Myst), one of the settings in the computer game Myst
• Mechanical Animals, the third full-length studio release by Marilyn Manson
• Mechanical license, used in the music industry to indicate the payment made from a licensee to the owner of a copyright for the right to mechanically reproduce a song
• A kind of typeface in the VOX-ATypI classification

Mechanical is often used as a general term to distinguish from another class of item. Mechanical may mean:

• Machine, especially in opposition to an electronic item
• Mechanical watch, utilizing a non-electric mechanism
• Mechanization, using machine labor instead of human or animal labor
• Automation, using machine decisions and processing instead of human
• Manufactured or artificial, especially in opposition to a biological or natural component
• Mechanism (technology), a portion of a mechanical device

See also

Mechanic (disambiguation)

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