Machine
Definition of Machine
Ma`chine´ Pronunciation: må`shēnd´ | n. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. | | 3. | A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another. | | 4. | A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. | | 5. | A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine. | | 6. | Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.| Machine gun | | See under Gun. |
| Machine tool | | a machine for cutting or shaping wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for producing a special article as in manufacturing. |
| | v. t. | 1. | To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. |
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