Found 3 items, similar to machinery.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: machinery mesin
English → English (WordNet) Definition: machinery machinery n 1: machines or machine systems collectively 2: a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions; “the complex machinery of negotiation”; “the machinery of command labored and brought forth an order”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Machinery Machinery \Ma*chin"er*y\, n. [From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.] 1. Machines, in general, or collectively. [1913 Webster] 2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] An indispensable part of the machinery of state. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet). [1913 Webster]