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- Machinery - n. - Machines, in general, or collectively.
- Machinery - n. - The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
- Machinery - n. - 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.
- Machinery - n. - 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.
- Curia - n. - The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
- Log - n. - A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
- Mechanical - a. - Of or pertaining to a machine or to machinery or tools; made or formed by a machine or with tools; as, mechanical precision; mechanical products.
- Centrosome - n. - A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It is regarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery of cell division is organized.
- Fitter - n. - One who fits or adjusts the different parts of machinery to each other.
- Fly - v. i. - A heavy wheel, or cross arms with weights at the ends on a revolving axis, to regulate or equalize the motion of machinery by means of its inertia, where the power communicated, or the resistance to be overcome, is variable, as in the steam engine or the coining press. See Fly wheel (below).
- Plant - n. - The whole machinery and apparatus employed in carrying on a trade or mechanical business; also, sometimes including real estate, and whatever represents investment of capital in the means of carrying on a business, but not including material worked upon or finished products; as, the plant of a foundry, a mill, or a railroad.
- Machining - a. - Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
- Polytechnic - a. - Comprehending, or relating to, many arts and sciences; -- applied particularly to schools in which many branches of art and science are taught with especial reference to their practical application; also to exhibitions of machinery and industrial products.
- Dog - n. - A piece in machinery acting as a catch or clutch; especially, the carrier of a lathe, also, an adjustable stop to change motion, as in a machine tool.
- Luddite - n. - One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames.
- Invent - v. t. - To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
- Clockwork - n. - The machinery of a clock, or machinery resembling that of a clock; machinery which produces regularity of movement.
- Velocimeter - n. - An apparatus for measuring speed, as of machinery or vessels, but especially of projectiles.
- Belting - n. - The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
- Water mill - - A mill whose machinery is moved by water; -- distinguished from a windmill, and a steam mill.
- Watch - v. i. - A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
- Backlash - n. - The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.
- Millwork - n. - The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
- Order - n. - Right arrangement; a normal, correct, or fit condition; as, the house is in order; the machinery is out of order.
- Coal works - - A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal.
- Frame - n. - The skeleton structure which supports the boiler and machinery of a locomotive upon its wheels.
- Fly - v. i. - Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock.
- Bush - n. - A lining for a hole to make it smaller; a thimble or ring of metal or wood inserted in a plate or other part of machinery to receive the wear of a pivot or arbor.
- Mill - n. - A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.