- Automatically operating devices - Factory equipment - Mechanical apparatus - Working parts - Machines, in general, or collectively. - The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument;
as, the machinery of a watch. - 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.
- Contrivance, workings - Machine’s moving parts - Mechanical apparatus - Way a machine works - The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine;
the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation
of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the
mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism
of a seed pod. - Mechanical operation or action. - An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies
constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative
movements.
- A mover or exciter of electricity; as apparatus for
generating a current of electricity. - An apparatus or machine for producing motion and
mechanical effects by the action of electricity; an electro-magnetic
engine.
- An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat
contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical
process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc. - An apparatus for measuring the proportion of
unevaporated water contained in steam.
- A product initially used in place of household gadget - Fire engine - Oven or toaster, e.g. - Oven or toaster, eg - The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience. - The thing applied or used as a means to an end; an
apparatus or device; as, to use various appliances; a mechanical
appliance; a machine with its appliances.