Machine (IPA: /məˈʃin/)
| Machine (n.) |
In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. |
| Machine (n.) |
Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. |
| Machine (n.) |
A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. |
| Machine (n.) |
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. |
| Machine (n.) |
A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. |
| Machine (n.) |
Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. |
| Machine (v. t.) |
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. |
| Machine |
Tool containing one or more parts that uses energy to perform an intended action |
| Machine |
Device employing power to achieve desired forces and/or motion |
| Machine |
In United States patent law, one of the four principal categories of things which may be patented |
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EP |
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Static-X album |
| Machine Synonyms |
Automobile, Car, Motorcar, Auto |
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Political Machine |
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Simple Machine |
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