"mechanical" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe anything related to machines or the mechanical processes involved in making a machine work. For example: "The mechanical movement of the gears meshed perfectly to create the desired effect."
"It looks like it will have been down to both human and mechanical error.
Osaka's Dōtonbori district is a Disneyland of food, where the restaurant signage includes a giant mechanical crab, a blowfish the size of a hot air balloon and a giant squid that puffs steam.
On the face of it this does not have a lot to do with the specialised mechanical discipline that is fast bowling, or indeed the career of Steven Finn, England's own talented, statistically prodigious man-of-the-moment-before-last, whose falling away from the front rank is one of the more puzzling base notes of a generally puzzling tour of Australia.
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After the war, Paczynski became a mechanical engineer and a teacher.
No one likes to see a mechanical rob a rider of overall glory – but spare a though for Oscar Gatto, who had been the fastest man in the breakaway that rode away to victory in Forli and who was also the victim of a disastrously timed puncture that robbed him of a stage win.
In a statement, Delta said the flight crew returned to LAX "after a potential systems issue was observed", seeming to corroborate reports that the pilots had grown concerned by a potential mechanical issue.
Roy, a mechanical engineer, was a regular columnist of the Bangladeshi news agency bdnews24.com.
It said he has been sedated, received a tracheal intubation, and was on mechanical ventilation.
After the bulls had returned to the sanctity of their pen, at the far side of the oval, the runners quietly filed out towards the concessions stands, past an ambulance and a couple of wickedly-spinning mechanical bull rides that had few takers.
The weight is made manageable by using a z-pulley system that gives the person hauling a mechanical advantage.
