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What does mechanism mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word mechanism? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (machine) any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.
  2. Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.
  3. A group of objects or parts that interact together. (as in Political machine)
  4. A mental, physical, or chemical process.
  5. (philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.
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Changing the phosphorylation state of the CTD is one mechanism by which binding of accessory proteins to the CTD of pol II may be regulated.
Social reformism within a liberal democratic framework is apparently just one more snare in the mechanism of domination.
A mechanism which gives mass to the particles by allowing them to interact with a field was first suggested by Peter Higgs.
These results are discussed with respect to the mechanism of membrane disruption by antimicrobial peptides.
The mechanism may be unrelated to what these drugs do as anti-inflammatories.
The whole of the mechanism was powered by heavy weights which drove the cog wheel.

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