machinery: Meaning and Definition of

ma•chin•er•y

1. an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
2. the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch.
3. a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained: the machinery of government.
4. a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
5. the group or aggregate of literary machines, esp. those of supernatural agencyin an epic poem.