Used in a Sentence

machinery

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for machinery.

Editorial note

Of course, the reality is that then you would wind up with awkward limit-taking machinery in your answers.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of machinery gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

The working parts of a machine as a group.

noun

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for machinery.

noun

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

noun

The working parts of a machine as a group.

noun

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

noun

(figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.

Example sentences

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Of course, the reality is that then you would wind up with awkward limit-taking machinery in your answers.

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Now that you know how the machinery works it's pretty simple and gets you composability and referential transparency.

3

Copyright basically hinges on the act of copying being a laborious process, involving large machinery and man-hours.

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In the physical world the different between ideal and practical can be described by my experience with production machinery.

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The machinery came with guards to protect the operators from getting their hands caught or cut off.

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You can write functional code in C, but beyond very simple things you're implementing most of the machinery yourself.

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Plants have chemical-producing machinery that is in many ways far more advanced than what humans have developed.

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But on its own, it needs to maintain a full defense machinery without outside help.

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Imagine all the people who do not have to work the fields due to machinery.

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Humans should not be operating cars or any other heavy machinery for that matter.

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Next, we do have an increasingly good understanding of the basic machinery that drives biological information processing.

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The political implications of autonomous machinery with nigh-unbounded geographic reach are deeply hazardous.

Quote examples

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"The code is not that of a plane number plate, nor that or a serial number on machinery," he wrote.

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Can we not imagine, say, a future where the art of warping spacetime is so well-understood that Newton's theories about a gravitational "force" are seen as just a bit of predictive machinery - useful for making approximations, but bearing no connection to the "truth" underneath?

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That's why fairly "easy" bankruptcy laws are usually considered more pro-business, while "moralizing" bankruptcy laws, as more often found in Europe, are actually considered to depress the economy (by simultaneously mobilizing vast machinery to pay out on "bad bets" and heavily penalizing business failure, thus increasing the risk-up-front of entrepreneurship and investment).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use machinery in a sentence?

Of course, the reality is that then you would wind up with awkward limit-taking machinery in your answers.

What does machinery mean?

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

What part of speech is machinery?

machinery is commonly used as noun.