mechanize

English

Alternative forms

• mechanise

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɛkənaɪz/

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• Hyphenation: mech‧an‧ize

Verb

mechanize (third-person singular simple present mechanizes, present participle mechanizing, simple past and past participle mechanized)

1. To equip something with machinery.
2. To equip a military unit with tanks and other armed vehicles.
3. To make something routine, automatic or monotonous.
   • 1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China‎^[1], number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by Jen-min Yu-tian, →OCLC, page 16:

     The engineering department of the Sinkiang Posts and Telecommunications Control Bureau fully utilized both native and foreign methods to carry out innovation and technical revolution. About 80 percent of its line work are now mechanized. A remote control switch for the radio transmitter was test-produced by the Kashgar and A-k'o-su bureaus.

Related terms

• mechanization

Translations

to equip with machinery

• Arabic: مَكْنَنَ (ar) (maknana)
• Asturian: mecanizar
• Belarusian: механізава́ць impf or pf (mjexanizavácʹ)
• Bulgarian: механизи́рам impf or pf (mehanizíram)
• Catalan: mecanitzar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 機械化／机械化 (zh) (jīxièhuà)

• Finnish: koneellistaa, mekanisoida
• French: mécaniser (fr)
• Galician: mecanizar
• Georgian: მექანიზება (mekanizeba)
• German: mechanisieren (de)
• Italian: meccanizzare (it)
• Japanese: 機械化する (きかいかする, kikaika suru)
• Korean: 기계화하다 (gigyehwahada)
• Macedonian: механизи́ра impf or pf (mehanizíra)
• Polish: mechanizować impf, zmechanizować pf
• Portuguese: mecanizar
• Russian: механизи́ровать (ru) impf or pf (mexanizírovatʹ)
• Spanish: mecanizar (es)
• Ukrainian: механізува́ти impf or pf (mexanizuváty)

military: to equip with vehicles

• Finnish: mekanisoida

to make something routine, automatic or monotonous

• Finnish: mekaanistaa (fi)
• Polish: mechanizować impf, zmechanizować pf