Adjective : a mechanical failure. ,a mechanical toy. ,mechanical propulsion. ,a mechanical bond between stones; mechanical erosion. ,the mechanical trades; mechanical ability. ,a mechanical performance. ,Practice that step until it becomes mechanical.    From Dictionary.com. 

'For essential and non-mechanical purposes, ample.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santorini]

The role of mechanical and non-mechanical factors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CHOP congenital diaphragmatic hernia publications] Reference

But what about the non-mechanical forces: heat, light, electricity and magnetism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermann von Helmholtz] Reference

I envy their capacious memory, or should I say heart: their non-mechanical learning by heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Interview with Harold Bloom] Reference

We exhausted our meager non-mechanical options and took the car to the dealership to be looked at.    From Wordnik.com.  [stonetable.org » 2007 » February] Reference

Bakke, truly individualized consideration demands that race be used in a flexible, non-mechanical way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Affirmative Action] Reference

In other words, he had no need for ensembles or non-mechanical probabilistic assumptions in this paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boltzmann's Work in Statistical Physics] Reference

For here mechanical and non-mechanical causation can be seen working side by side in closest conjunction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Television was a new wonder in the early fifties and an impenetrable miracle to a non-mechanical mind like mine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every living thing]

We must learn to admit non-mechanical causes of physical effects, where such causes actually present themselves to our observation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Figure 3 shows the non-mechanical, functional qualities of orgone energy by the non-linear changes in cpm with increases in voltage (10).    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 4] Reference

It appears that the particular standard mentioned by TCO would disallow mechanical heat sources if they mimic other non-mechanical heat sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [More on Asphalt « Climate Audit] Reference

Clarke's position on the issue was radical: the various non-mechanical powers of particles are the result of direct divine or spiritual activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samuel Clarke] Reference

These babys were sold in the 1960s and 70s after 500 years of techical development ... they were the last of the non-mechanical bows and are all good.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interested in buying a recurve, I want to do everything myself [besides build the bow] I would like to buy bare shaft and do the] Reference

The death of his rival, by means so purely non-mechanical or physical, gave the Black Snake a pre-eminence in "medicine" which he has ever since maintained.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference

On this basis he claimed that nothing in animal behavior requires a non-mechanical (mental) explanation; hence he saw no reason to attribute possession of mind to animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Consciousness] Reference

So I am inclined to believe there is a non-mechanical mind functioning in control of or in conjunction with any mechanical consciousnesses that might be inhabiting this vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Hole]

According to Sir James Jeans: the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the Universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Review: Quantum Enigma] Reference

Light Peak, non-mechanical gyroscopes, and holograms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tahoe Daily Tribune - Top Stories] Reference

We humans need to hold onto things non-mechanical and non-virtual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personism] Reference

To prevent teams from seeking a non-mechanical solution the FIA also stated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Motorsport.com: news] Reference

An SSD is completely non-mechanical, with no whirring disk, and is pretty jolt-proof.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

In the organic world we see living adaptation which involves a non-mechanical principle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breath of Life] Reference

"People are looking for a non-chemical, non-mechanical means of controlling weeds," Larsen said.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Plains Journal] Reference

The very ideas of such non-mechanical elements or principles are here provided with a mechanical origin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference

Indeed, the vast majority of non-mechanical control systems do not use artificial intelligence, as much simpler.    From Wordnik.com.  [robot guy] Reference

Apparently Toyota has gone with this non-mechanical gas pedal system in a number of their cars the past few years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference

With an non-mechanical shutter and multiple wide & fast data paths in the image-processing and storage electronics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

Thinking in terms of generalized coordinates helps one treat the non-mechanical aspects of the model the same as the mechanical aspects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Engineering Hardware-Software] Reference

UNIVERSE, "is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

"Our problem with teaching you non-mechanical magic is that you don't believe in it!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Myth Marker]

I am excessively non-mechanical.    From Wordnik.com.  [HCR: Pelosi tells the simple-minded American people not to worry our pretty little heads about it] Reference