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mechanization
[ mek-uh-nahy-zey-shuhn ]
noun
- the act or process of causing a task to be performed or operated by machinery:
The mechanization of cinnamon processing has also solved health and sanitation issues plaguing the industry.
- the act or process of introducing machines into an industry or other area of activity in order to replace human labor:
Hay loaders are another example of the increasing mechanization of agriculture.
- the act or process of subordinating the spiritual to the material, or of explaining something totally in terms of material forces:
There is a vague unease with the artificiality of technology, with its imperialistic mechanization of a world from which we ourselves feel strangely alien.
Other Words From
- an·ti·mech·a·ni·za·tion noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of mechanization1
Example Sentences
I think the century of the self has provided us with this: the mechanization of celebrity, the artist as a public collage.
The mechanization of society leads, inevitably, to a militant society.
The mechanization of economics had become a common possession for everybody.
I have so greatly ventured because I have at length solved the final step in the mechanization of the world.
Work was being done by a puzzling combination of mechanization and musclepower.
But mechanization is not of necessity all there is to habit.
The mechanization of nature is the condition of a practical and progressive idealism in action.
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