Machinery vs. Mechanization — What's the Difference?

Machines or machine parts considered as a group.

Mechanization is the process of changing from working largely or exclusively by hand or with animals to doing that work with machinery. In an early engineering text a machine is defined as follows: Every machine is constructed for the purpose of performing certain mechanical operations, each of which supposes the existence of two other things besides the machine in question, namely, a moving power, and an object subject to the operation, which may be termed the work to be done.

The working parts of a particular machine.

To equip with machinery

A system of related elements that operate in a definable manner

To equip (a military unit) with motor vehicles, such as tanks and trucks.

A device or means of achieving or effecting a result.

To make automatic or unspontaneous; render routine or monotonous.

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

To produce by or as if by machines.

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

The use of machinery to replace human or animal labour, especially in agriculture and industry.

The working parts of a machine as a group.

The act or process of mechanizing.

The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

Causing to be performed by machines, especially by a highly technical implementation, usually involving electronic hardware; as, the mechanization of a manufacturing process.

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

The condition of having a highly technical implementation

Machines, in general, or collectively.

The act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware;

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

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.

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.

Machines or machine systems collectively

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