noun 1. many machines, taken as a group ○ The factory has got rid of a lot of old machinery. 2. a way of organising something ○ a review of local government machinery ○ the machinery for awarding government contracts (NOTE: no plural: some machinery, a piece of machinery)
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).
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).
Meaning of “machinery” in English language – noun 1. many machines, taken as a group...
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