machinery

From French machinerie (“machinery”), from machine (“machine”); see machine.

• enPR: mə-shē'nə-rē, IPA^(key): /məˈʃiːnəɹi/
• Rhymes: -iːnəɹi

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machinery (countable and uncountable, plural machinery)

1. The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
2. The working parts of a machine as a group.
3. The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
4. (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

• heavy machinery
• political machinery

• machinist

• machinery in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• machinery in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• hemicrany