Other forms: mechanics
A mechanic is somebody whose job is repairing engines and machines, most often cars. A car mechanic, take it to the mechanic, a good mechanic.
In Britain the person and the place are usually distinguished — the mechanic works at the garage. Aircraft mechanic and bike mechanic are the other common compounds. The plural mechanics also means the practical details of how something works: the mechanics of the deal, the mechanics of the sentence. And mechanics is the branch of physics dealing with motion and force, which is where the word started.
1nounmechanicSomebody whose job is repairing engines and machines.
“The mechanic said my car needed new brakes.”
2nounpracticalThe practical details of how something works.
“Nobody had thought through the mechanics of it.”
mechanic is a worker, or the workings of something.
Greek mekhanikos meant ingenious or inventive, from mekhane, a contrivance — the source of machine too. A mechanic was an inventor before an engine existed to fix, and the mechanics of a plan keeps that older sense of clever workings.
Middle English
mekanyk
English, today
mechanic
Built from
From Middle English mekanyk. From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (“pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (“a machine, contrivance”); see machine.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA