Mechanism

Mechanism may refer to:Mechanism (economics), a set of rules for a game designed to achieve a certain outcome Mechanism design, the study of such mechanisms Mechanism (engineering), rigid bodies connected by joints in order to accomplish a desired force and/or motion transmission Mechanism (biology), explaining how a feature is created Mechanism (philosophy), a theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes Mechanism (sociology), a theory that all social phenomena can be explained by the existence of a deterministic mechanism