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mech

mech

14 8.5
A large robot controlled by a person, often in science fiction or games
  • noun
  • /mɛk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : mecha
  • Officially, I was the expedition's mechanic, but in the early phases of the dig, I monitored a mapping mech as it crawled over the site, cataloguing the surface features and developing a deep structural profile.
  • trainer mech
  • a giant mech
  • mech suit

Hunt is like out of the mech suit looking down at Bryce who is not breathing.

Examples

  • JAY: As long as we have these mechs, we're unstoppable!

  • Players are in charge of a team of soldiers who operate large robot-like machines called mechs.

    Blog text (11)
  • Just go out there in your battle mech and fight.

  • With your left hand, you control the movement of your mech with the circle pad.

    Blog text (8)
  • I kept the mech supplied with recording media and fuel cells.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • I am going to build a bipedal mech, a big one before I die.

  • I build and drive mechs all the time.

  • If you want to get to level two, you're gonna have to battle a mech.

  • They asked us to to draw the opponent's mech, the Karatus.

  • In the video game, players can control a giant mech to battle enemies and complete missions.

Synonyms

mecha
vsmech
  • Jargon
2 8.1

A large robot shaped like a person that people pilot

is broader naming any large mechanical device not limited to humanoid forms

How Big

colossus
2 6.7
mech
  • Jargon
14 8.5
robot
454 2.6
walker
33 1.0
drone
267 3.7

Surface Forms

mech singular
mechs plural

Etymology

Mech comes from the Japanese mecha, which comes from the English mechanical meaning 'machine'. So a mech is a large robot or machine that a person can sit in and control.