machinery
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nə 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.
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| —n , pl -eries | |
| 1. | machines, machine parts, or machine systems collectively |
| 2. | a particular machine system or set of machines |
| 3. | a system similar to a machine: the machinery of government |
| 4. | literary devices used for effect in epic poetry |
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Example sentences
Entrepreneurs will see little reason to invest in extra plant and machinery when so much existing capacity lies idle.
To be drinkable, well water is purified through machinery run by electricity.
Boring deep holes requires geological know-how and expensive heavy machinery.
The factory only had a dozen or so toilets and used no water in the machinery.
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