ALL meanings of complex-machine
com·plex-ma·chine
C c - noun complex-machine Older Use. an automobile or airplane. a typewriter. 2
- noun complex-machine an apparatus consisting of interrelated parts with separate functions, used in the performance of some kind of work: a sewing machine. 1
- noun complex-machine a mechanical apparatus or contrivance; mechanism. 1
- noun complex-machine Mechanics. a device that transmits or modifies force or motion. Also called simple machine. any of six or more elementary mechanisms, as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, screw, wedge, and inclined plane. Also called complex machine. a combination of simple machines. 1
- noun complex-machine a bicycle or motorcycle. 1
- noun complex-machine a vending machine: a cigarette machine. 1
- noun complex-machine any complex agency or operating system: the machine of government. 1
- noun complex-machine an organized group of persons that conducts or controls the activities of a political party or organization: He heads the Democratic machine in our city. 1
- noun complex-machine a person or thing that acts in a mechanical or automatic manner: Routine work had turned her into a machine. 1
- noun complex-machine any of various contrivances, especially those formerly used in theater, for producing stage effects. 1
- noun complex-machine some agency, personage, incident or other feature introduced for effect into a literary composition. 1
- verb with object complex-machine to make, prepare, or finish with a machine or with machine tools. 1