Словарь синонимов английского языка - mechanism

(n) 1. device, appliance, contrivance, apparatus, instrument, machine: This mechanism will detonate the bomb at the right moment. 2. machinery, workings, works, structure, system, organization, arrangement: Astrophysicists can offer only an imperfect account of the mechanism of the universe. 3. way, means, method, procedure, approach, technique, medium, process, agency: We shall use every mechanism at our disposal to have the case heard by a different judge. 4. materialism, mechanicalism, physicalism, logical positivism, identity theory, monism: His notions of mechanism reject the idea of free-thinking individualism.