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Does your mechanical pencil advance its own lead? Does your mechanical keyboard type on itself?
Yes, in this sense.
Clicking the mechanism converts the manual input to a mechanical or electrical output.
If you pushed the lead down entirely by hand it wouldn't be a mechanical pencil, which is exactly why you pushing or flipping a plastic cover into place entirely with your own muscle power makes it a manual shutter.
When you type on a mechanical keyboard, what, precisely, do you think is happening? Are you literally outputting a letter by pressing your finger down? For that matter, what do you think a mechanical keyboard does?
Fucking Google it.
I do love having to explain basic terminology to a relatively well educated yet stupendously deaf audience.
Really restores my faith in humanity.
We're not fucking cooked, and the mental infantilization of the population is not complete.
mechanical /mĭ-kăn′ĭ-kəl/ adjective
You're using the second definition and everybody else, including me, is thinking of the first or third. I would call anything that has a mechanism integrated into it, such as a manual slide that covers a camera, no matter how simple, to be mechanical. A playground teeter totter is pushing the definition, but I'd say it's technically mechanical.