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- 3 dictionary resultsma⋅chin⋅er⋅y
[muh-shee-nuh-ree] 
nə
–noun, plural -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, esp. those of supernatural agency (epic machinery) in an epic poem. |
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| ma·chin·er·y (mə-shē'nə-rē, -shēn'rē) n. pl. ma·chin·er·ies
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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).
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Language Translation for : machinery
Spanish:
maquinaria,
German:
die Maschinerie,
Japanese:
機械類
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