- the act or process of causing a task to be performed or operated by machinery: The mechanization of cinnamon processing has also solved health and sanitation issues plaguing the industry.
- the act or process of introducing machines into an industry or other area of activity in order to replace human labor: Hay loaders are another example of the increasing mechanization of agriculture.
- the act or process of subordinating the spiritual to the material, or of explaining something totally in terms of material forces: There is a vague unease with the artificiality of technology, with its imperialistic mechanization of a world from which we ourselves feel strangely alien.
