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machineries
Variant of machinery
noun pl. machineries
- machines collectively
- the working parts of a machine
- any combination of things or persons by which something is kept in action or a desired result is obtained: the machinery of government
- apparatus used to produce stage effects
- literary devices involving the introduction of supernatural beings or forces, as in epic poetry
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