Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar.
Thy Doll, and Helen of thy noble thoughts, Is in base durance and contagious prison, Haled thither by most mechanical and dirty hand.
Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on matter).
mechanical engineering
Related to mechanics (the design and construction of machines).
mechanical dictionary
Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction.
Since we are dealing with copy in paste-up form, we are now concerned with the preparation and assembly of elements suitable for camera-ready copy, positioned on the mechanical according to the rough layout supplied.
From Middle English mechanical, mechanicalle, mechanycalle, equivalent to mechanic + -al.
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One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals
Rude mechanicals must know their place in a horsey army.
A robot or mechanical creature.
Is it a mechanical, or a man in a clockwork suit?