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Definition of machine

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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

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Engineering :: Engineering (n.) Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern and extended sense, the art and science by which the mechanical properties of matter are made useful to man in structures and machines; the occupation and work of an engineer..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) Two or more vanes set on a revolving axis, to act as a fanner, or to equalize or impede the motion of machinery by the resistance of the air, as in the striking part of a clock..

Erect :: Erect (v. t.) To raise, as a building; to build; to construct; as, to erect a house or a fort; to set up; to put together the component parts of, as of a machine..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Centrifugal :: Centrifugal (n.) A centrifugal machine.

Lathe :: Lathe (n.) A machine for turning, that is, for shaping articles of wood, metal, or other material, by causing them to revolve while acted upon by a cutting tool..

Machine :: Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit..

Shaver :: Shaver (n.) A tool or machine for shaving.

Water Power :: Water power () The power of water employed to move machinery, etc..

Dismount :: Dismount (v. t.) To take down, or apart, as a machine..

Cornsheller :: Cornsheller (n.) A machine that separates the kernels of corn from the cob.

Tool :: Tool (n.) An instrument such as a hammer, saw, plane, file, and the like, used in the manual arts, to facilitate mechanical operations; any instrument used by a craftsman or laborer at his work; an implement; as, the tools of a joiner, smith, shoe-maker, etc.; also, a cutter, chisel, or other part of an instrument or machine that dresses work..

Machine :: Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

Commutator :: Commutator (n.) A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction..

Polyspast :: Polyspast (n.) A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, an apparatus formerly used for reducing luxations..

Shears :: Shears (n.) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge..

Lapping :: Lapping (n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

Temperer :: Temperer (n.) One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water..

Aviator :: Aviator (n.) A flying machine.

Sheepsplit :: Sheepsplit (n.) A split of a sheepskin; one of the thin sections made by splitting a sheepskin with a cutting knife or machine.