machinery
The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
Other meanings
The working parts of a machine as a group.
The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
“All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.”
Kinds of machinery
- technology
- mill
Related words
- antimachinery
- micromachinery
- nanomachinery
- turbomachinery
- heavy machinery
- political machinery
Example sentences
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “machinery” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.