machineries

Noun

machinery (countable and uncountable, plural machineries)

1. The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
   • The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.1890, William Howard Russell, “Iquique to the Pampas”, in A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapacá, Etc., London: J[ames] S[prent] Virtue & Co., […], page 171
2. The working parts of a machine as a group.
3. The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
   • All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.
4. (figuratively) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.