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  2. Mechanism (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    In engineering, a mechanism is a device that transforms input forces and movement into a desired set of output forces and movement. Mechanisms generally consist of moving components which may include Gears and gear trains; Belts and chain drives; cams and followers; Linkages; Friction devices, such as brakes or clutches; Structural components ...

  3. Mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Mechanism may refer to: Mechanism (economics), a set of rules for a game designed to achieve a certain outcome. Mechanism design, the study of such mechanisms. Mechanism (engineering), rigid bodies connected by joints in order to accomplish a desired force and/or motion transmission. Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created.

  4. Reaction mechanism - Wikipedia

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    In chemistry, a reaction mechanism is the step by step sequence of elementary reactions by which overall chemical reaction occurs. [ 1 ] A chemical mechanism is a theoretical conjecture that tries to describe in detail what takes place at each stage of an overall chemical reaction. The detailed steps of a reaction are not observable in most cases.

  5. Mechanism (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Mechanism (biology) In biology, a mechanism is a system of causally interacting parts and processes that produce one or more effects. [1] Phenomena can be explained by describing their mechanisms. For example, natural selection is a mechanism of evolution; other mechanisms of evolution include genetic drift, mutation, and gene flow.

  6. Mechanism (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes (principally living things) are similar to complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other. The doctrine of mechanism in philosophy comes in two different varieties. They are both doctrines of metaphysics, but they are different in scope and ...

  7. Higgs mechanism - Wikipedia

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    The Higgs mechanism occurs whenever a charged field has a vacuum expectation value. In the non-relativistic context this is a superconductor, more formally known as the Landau model of a charged Bose–Einstein condensate. In the relativistic condensate, the condensate is a scalar field that is relativistically invariant.

  8. The Mechanism (TV series) - Wikipedia

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    The Mechanism) is a Brazilian political drama television series created by José Padilha and Elena Soarez, directed by Padilha, Felipe Prado, and Marcos Prado, and written by Elena Soarez. The show depicts Operation Car Wash ( Portuguese : Operação Lava Jato ), an ongoing police taskforce that discovered a widespread corruption scheme ...

  9. Site-specific recombination - Wikipedia

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    The mechanism occurs in the framework of a synaptic complex (1) including both DNA sites in parallel orientation. While branch-migration explains the specific homology requirements and the reversibility of the process in a straightforward manner, it cannot be reconciled with the motions recombinase subunits have to undergo in three dimensions.