(advertising) Manually created layout of artwork that is camera ready for photographic reproduction. / One who does manual labor, especially one who is similar to Shakespeare's rude mechanicals

(now rare) Characteristic of someone who does manual labour for a living; coarse, vulgar. / Related to mechanics (the branch of physics that deals with forces acting on mass).

(US) mechanical fixtures and fittings. / (recording) Royalties on the sale of recordings in the form of records, CDs, tapes, or similar objects.

plural of mechanical

In a mechanical manner.

Alternative form of mechanicalness

Equipped with machinery. / (military) Equipped with armoured motor vehicles; compare motorized (“equipped with unarmoured vehicles”).

simple past tense and past participle of mechanize

The use of machinery to replace human or animal labour, especially in agriculture and industry.

present participle of mechanize