About The Word Machinery

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Machinery

Machinery Meaning & Definition
Machinery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Machinery?

[n] machines or machine systems collectively
[n] a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; "the complex machinery of negotiation"; "the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Machinery:

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See Also | enginery | machine | system

Machinery In Webster's Dictionary

\Ma*chin"er*y\, n. [From {Machine}: cf. F. machinerie.] 1. Machines, in general, or collectively. 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. 3. The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. --Pope. 4. The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose. An indispensable part of the machinery of state. --Macaulay. The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

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