machinistic

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adjective

Of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

adjectivemachinistic (comparative more machinistic, superlative most machinistic)

comparative more machinistic · superlative most machinistic

  1. Of, or relating to machines; mechanistic.

    Trees may be pruned to a variety of distortions, artistic to some beholders, machinistic to others.

    1988, Taylor's Guide to Gardening, →ISBN, page 59
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    In the last years of his life Orozco adopted a machinistic and abstract style, already prophesied in the right half of one of the Dartmouth murals.

    1959, John Canaday, “Reactions against Abstraction”, in Mainstreams of Modern Art, page 510

    Soon, the track machines, just fifty miles or so north, would catch up, and as fast as the cement could dry, the prefabricated bridges would be bolted on top of the support towers and the whole machinistic endeavor would push farther south, toward Lhasa.

    2008, Abrahm Lustgarten, “The Race to Reach Lhasa”, in China's Great Train, →ISBN, page 186

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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