- an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- the parts of a machine, collectively: the machinery of a watch.
- a group of people or a system by which action is maintained or by which some result is obtained: the machinery of government.
- a group of contrivances for producing stage effects.
- the group or aggregate of literary machines, especially those of supernatural agency (epic machinery ) in an epic poem.
- machines, machine parts, or machine systems collectively
- a particular machine system or set of machines
- a system similar to a machine
- literary devices used for effect in epic poetry
