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made by any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are
constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified,
as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley
about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting
of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels,
levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated
to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover
or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production
of some desired mechanical effect or work