Sentences with phrase «understand mechanical things»

But he never used it, on the simple ground that «he did not understand mechanical things»!

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A mechanical engineer should understand that mechanical things come together based upon a plan.

For simple machines like a bicycle we also find the earliest stages of an explanation, which can be classified as mechanical and which looks away from a self - propelled movement and switches over to external influences; from seven to eight years of age the child is, in the realm of mechanical things, capable of understanding movements in function of transmissions (RME 221 - 266).

But the interesting thing is that although the mechanical aspects of arithmetic may have eluded them (as they would not have a human), they were fairly easily able to understand a high level concept like our numbering system, the decimal system.