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

Arts, films, and music

  • "The Mechanism", song by Disclosure
  • "Mechanism", song by Front Line Assembly from WarMech
  • The Mechanism (TV series), a Netflix TV series

See also

  • Machine
  • Machine (mechanical)
  • Linkage (mechanical)
  • Mechanism of action, the means by which a drug exerts its biological effects
  • Defence mechanism, unconscious mechanisms aimed at reducing anxiety
  • Reaction mechanism, the sequence of reactions by which overall chemical change occurs
  • Antikythera mechanism, an ancient Greek analog computer
  • Theory of operation, a description of how a device or system should work
  • Machine (disambiguation)
  • Mechanical
  • Mechanics (disambiguation)