Mechanism

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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