Machinery vs. Mechanism — What's the Difference?

Machines or machine parts considered as a group.

A machine or mechanical appliance.

The working parts of a particular machine.

The arrangement of connected parts in a machine.

A system of related elements that operate in a definable manner

A system of parts that operate or interact like those of a machine

A device or means of achieving or effecting a result.

An instrument or a process, physical or mental, by which something is done or comes into being

A literary device for bringing about an effect, such as a happy ending.

A habitual manner of acting to achieve an end.

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

(Psychology) A usually unconscious mental and emotional pattern that shapes behavior in a given situation or environment

The working parts of a machine as a group.

The sequence of steps in a chemical reaction.

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

(Philosophy) The doctrine that all natural phenomena are explicable by material causes and mechanical principles.

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

(within a machine or machinery) Any mechanical means for the conversion or control of motion, or the transmission or control of power.

Machines, in general, or collectively.

Any combination of cams, gears, links, belts, chains and logical mechanical elements.

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

A group of entities, such as objects, that interact together.

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.

A mental, physical, or chemical process.

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.

Any process of, or system designed to manage useful energy conversion.

Machines or machine systems collectively

(philosophy) The theory that all natural phenomena can be explained by physical causes.

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

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.

The series of causal relations that operate to produce an effect in any system; as, the mechanism of a chemical reaction.

Mechanical operation or action.

An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constituting a machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.

The atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction;

The technical aspects of doing something;

A natural object resembling a machine in structure or function;

(philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

Device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function