Machinery

Quick meaning: Machinery is a noun meaning The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

Meaning

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.

All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.

The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.

Since the three histone-fold domain amino acids are located at the surface of the α-helix 2 domain that is responsible for the formation of H3-H4 dimers and accessible in prenucleosomal complexes, it has been suggested that the specificity associated with these amino acid positions derives from interactions with different assembly or post-translational-modification machineries.

Word Forms

• machineries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apparatus, device, mechanized, contraption, mechanism, machine.

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