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Machine

A machine is defined as any combination of connected bodies that constrain relative motion and transmit or modify force and motion. This includes complex constructions of moving parts like wheels, levers, and cams that can act as prime movers or receive force to produce a desired mechanical effect. A machine can also refer to devices like a wooden horse, coach, bicycle, or combinations of people working together for a common purpose.

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Machine

A machine is defined as any combination of connected bodies that constrain relative motion and transmit or modify force and motion. This includes complex constructions of moving parts like wheels, levers, and cams that can act as prime movers or receive force to produce a desired mechanical effect. A machine can also refer to devices like a wooden horse, coach, bicycle, or combinations of people working together for a common purpose.

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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.VV
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‘ny mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a
coach; a bicycle.VV
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‘ person who acts mechanically or at will of another.VV
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‘ combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which
they use; as, the social machine.VV
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‘ political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or
partisan ends.VV
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Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.VV
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To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing
machine.V

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