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What does mechanistic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the impersonal and automatic characteristics of a machine.
  2. Predetermined by, or as if by, a mechanism.
  3. (philosophy) Having a physical or biological cause.
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Observing single mechanistic cycle of a helicase is crucial to understanding how it utilizes its fuel to generate mechanical forces.
In the case of Lutheranism, a doctrine of consubstantiation was as absurd as the mechanistic maneuvering of transubstantiation.
We need them to safeguard us against drabness and drudgery, against a mechanistic and wearisome utilitarianism.
The idea of a Newtonian, mechanistic universe, and thus causal determinism, is out of date.
Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic.
Competition also provides a mechanistic basis for understanding asymmetries and negative covariation in the sizes of different structures.

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