1964 Y. R. Chao in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 39The *mechanico-acoustic set-up for recording speech on wax masters.
1840 Smart s.v. Mechanic,The *Mechanico-chemical sciences are magnetism, electricity, galvanism, &c.
1825 Coleridge AidsRefl. (1848) I. 327The utter emptiness..of the vaunted *Mechanico-corpuscular philosophy.
1870 Emerson Soc. & Solit. vii. 131is yet coming to render many higher services of a *mechanico-intellectual kind. [ Steam]
1920 D. H. Lawrence Touch & Go 9The strike situation..is a *mechanico-material struggle, two mechanical forces pulling asunder from the central object, the bone.
1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q.Neighb. vi. (1878) 70Stepping over many single leaves in a *mechanico-merciful way.
1937 Mind XLVI. 176 We wish to stress here what we conceive to be the inadequacy of all ‘*mechanico-morphic’ representations of concrete becoming in nature.
1935 J. Murphy tr. Schrödinger'sSci. & Human TemperamentIntrod. 19We must..abandon the mechanical structure. We must turn to the statistical concept... In other words, Schrödinger pleads for the abandonment of what may be called *mechanico-morphism in the pursuit of natural science,..the casting aside of all models and the wholesale employment of mathematical formulas in their stead.
1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxviii. 666The modern *mechanico-physical philosophy..which..includes the nebular cosmogony, the conservation of energy, the kinetic theory of heat and gases, etc.,..begins by saying that..the only laws the changes of motion which changes in collocation bring. [ are]
ORIGIN: from Latin mechanicus mechanic : see -o- .
mechanico-
combining form
Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary, from Latin mechanicus mechanic, mechanical — more at mechanic
1. : mechanical
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2. : mechanical and
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