epic machinery

epic machinery

noun
See under machinery (def. 5).
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ma·chin·er·y

[muh-shee-nuh-ree]
noun, plural ma·chin·er·ies.
1.
an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
2.
the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch.
3.
a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained: the machinery of government.
4.
a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
5.
the group or aggregate of literary machines, especially those of supernatural agency (epic machinery) in an epic poem.

Origin:
1680–90; machine + -ery

an·ti·ma·chin·er·y, adjective


3. organization, structure, setup.

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