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mechanizing

mechanizing is the present participle and gerund of mechanize.

Meaning of mechanize

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.
    • 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...1960 June 3 [1960 April 6], “Technical Revolution Promoted in Bureaus”, in Weekly Report on Communist China, number 28, Washington, D.C.: Central Intelligence Agency, translation of original by...

Questions about mechanizing

What is mechanizing the present participle and gerund of?
Mechanizing is the present participle and gerund of mechanize.

Words near mechanizing in the dictionary

  1. mechanized infantries
  2. mechanized infantry
  3. mechanizer
  4. mechanizers
  5. mechanizes
  6. mechanizing
  7. mechano-
  8. mechano-gated
  9. mechanoacoustic
  10. mechanoactivation
  11. mechanoactivations

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