Machinery definition

Machinery means any article or combination of articles assembled, arranged or connected and which is used or intended to be used for converting any form of energy to performing work, or which is used or intended to be used, whether incidental thereto or not, for developing, receiving, storing, containing, confining, transforming, transmitting, transferring or controlling any form of energy;
Machinery means mechanical, electronic, or electrical devices, including computers and computer software, that are purchased or constructed to be used for the activities set forth in paragraph (a), beginning with the removal of raw materials from inventory through completion of the product, including packaging of the product.
Machinery means any apparatus, including electronic control equipment, whether functioning independently or as part of a collection of apparatus, which generates, contains, controls, transmits, receives, transforms or utilises any form or source of energy or power.

Examples of Machinery in a sentence

  • Formally the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), the department split into DSIT and the Department for Energy and Net Zeri (DESNZ) as a result of the Machinery of Government (MoG) announcement in February 2023.


More Definitions of Machinery

Machinery means major mechanical machines or major components thereof which contribute directly and primarily to the livestock or dairy production process. Usually, a machine is a large object with moving parts which performs work by the expenditure of energy, either mechanical (e.g., gasoline or kerosene) or electrical.
Machinery means machines, belts, pulleys, motors, engines, gears, vats, pits, elevators, conveyors,
Machinery means any apparatus consisting of interrelated parts used to produce an article of tangible personal property. The term includes both the basic unit and any adjunct or attachment necessary for the basic unit to accomplish its intended function.
Machinery means a part or an assemblage of parts, fixed or movable, by which motion or force is transmitted;
Machinery means any device operated otherwise than by muscular force exerted by the operator;
Machinery means equipment, machinery, tools, appliances, other implements of all description or things of whatsoever nature required in or about the execution, or maintenance of the Works but does not include materials or other things intended to form or forming part of the Works.
Machinery means mechanical devices purchased or constructed by the manufacturer or recycler, or its agent, and used directly in manufacturing or recycling operations at any time from the initial stage where the raw material is first received at the plant site through the completion of the product, including packaging and all processes prior to transportation of the product from the site. The term includes electrical, mechanical, and electronic components that are part of machinery and necessary for a machine to produce its effect or result and environmental control equipment required to maintain certain levels of humidity or temperature in a special and limited area of the manufacturing facility where the regulation is essential for production to occur. The term includes computer equipment that controls or monitors the functions of machinery used directly in the manufacturing operations.