Equipment vs. Machinery

Equipmentnoun

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Equipmentnoun

Whatever is used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.

Equipmentnoun

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

Equipmentnoun

Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

Equipmentnoun

an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

Machinerynoun

The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

Machinerynoun

The working parts of a machine as a group.

Machinerynoun

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

Machinerynoun

(figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect

Machinerynoun

Machines, in general, or collectively.

Machinerynoun

The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

Machinerynoun

The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

Machinerynoun

The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

Machinerynoun

machines or machine systems collectively

Machinerynoun

a system of means and activities whereby a social institution functions;