Machinery

Definition of machinery:

part of speech: noun

Machines in general; parts of a machine.

part of speech: noun

Machines in general: the parts of a machine: means for keeping in action: supernatural agency in a poem.

part of speech: noun

Engines and other appliances collectively, or the parts of them; any means by which something is kept in action or the result desired is obtained.

Usage examples for machinery:

• I find machinery almost as interesting as the piano. "The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine", Katherine Stokes.

• Things have come to such a pass that it is largely a matter of machinery "Every Man for Himself", Hopkins Moorhouse.

• What do I know about machinery "King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays", Floyd Dell.

• From the fact that men worked more in solitary, quiet places, as contrasted with factories, having heavy machinery men used to whistle. "Revisiting the Earth", James Langdon Hill.