a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture | the technical aspects of doing something |
| device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function |
| (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes |
| a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function |
| the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction |