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mechanize
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mechanize [′mekĀ·ə‚nīz]
(mechanical engineering)
To substitute machinery for human or animal labor.
To produce or reproduce by machine.
(ordnance)
To equip a military force with armed and armored vehicles.


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Shanghai was always at the front of modernism and mechanisation, from the first cable communications and cotton mills, to cars and trams.
Typically they were artisans who worked outside of factories in trades where the impact of mechanisation came comparatively late: Charles and James Murray were both shoemakers as was William Morgan, while George Harris was a tailor, and Richard Butler a compositor.
KKM continued to expand and upgrade all field production facilities, with additions to field processing facilities, gathering stations and export infrastructure, to enable increased production and higher fluid throughput anticipated from ongoing drilling, well mechanisation plans and hydraulic fracturing.
 
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