compound machine

Or, they can go out to the Toolshed to see compound machines.

Compound machines are made up of two or more simple machines.

One approach is to attach simple machines in series to obtain compound machines.

On the other hand, the Alori were fumble-fingered when it came to the simplest compound machines.

At the table with compound machines, Rosalind pointed out that scissors combined the lever and wedge.

With this deadly compound machine they actually ascended from Boulogne, and had not left the land when the inevitable catastrophe took place.

In physics, work output is the work done by a simple machine, compound machine, or any type of engine model.

That becomes a compounding machine.

He passed quite close to one thing that could have been a robot, or a compound machine- organism, or perhaps a living animal made of metal.

The thing was either a robot, or a compound machine organism; it looked like an elegant metal crab, supported on four jointed legs.

Lu's discovery of the earliest precision compound machines was included in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

A sixth table features compound machines, and another compound machine, a go-kart, is parked nearby.

Simple machines can be regarded as the elementary "building blocks" of which all more complicated machines (sometimes called "compound machines") are composed.

This may cause confusion when working with compound machines like brushless alternators, or in conversation among people who are accustomed to work with differently configured machinery.

The mechanical advantage of a compound machine is just the product of the mechanical advantages of the simple machines of which it is composed.

A compound machine is a machine formed from a set of simple machines connected in series with the output force of one providing the input force to the next.

As a result, various post-Renaissance authors have compiled expanded lists of "simple machines", often using terms like basic machines, compound machines, or machine elements to distinguish them from the classical simple machines above.

Five screws rotate in a vacuum chamber: A new design of compounding machine which it calls the Reactor-Exchanger-Mixer (REM) has been patented by Bandera [Stand 15 B05].

With 25% of S&P 500 companies now solely focussed on share buybacks (and not paying a dividend), their unwillingness to return cash to shareholders in the form of dividends is transforming equities into a speculative trading vehicle rather than a long-term buy and hold compounding machine that is typical of an investment savings asset.