mechanical drawing

Questions about mechanical drawing

What does mechanical drawing mean?

mechanical drawing means "scale drawing of a machine or architectural plan etc,". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mechanical drawing?

Close synonyms include drafting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mechanical drawing a common word?

mechanical drawing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.