machinery

noun

1. 1

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

   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.

   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.

2. 2

   The working parts of a machine as a group.

3. 3

   The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

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

   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.

4. 4

   figurativeThe literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.

Forms

plural

machineries