machinelike

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Etymology

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From machine +‎ -like.

Adjective

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machinelike (comparative more machinelike, superlative most machinelike)

  1. Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
    • 1988 July 1, Laura Molzahn, “Private Puritan”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike.
    • 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
      The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.

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