Mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.
A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point.
1 This simple machine very much lessened the labor and expedited the work.
2 The husking could be greatly facilitated by a very simple machine .
3 Instead the Athenians relied on a simple machine to randomly select citizens for office.
4 At its heart, it remains essentially a simple machine .
5 This elegantly simple machine , introduced in 1976, has won worldwide acclaim for its rugged reliability.
6 A compressed air motor is an exceedingly simple machine - much simpler than an ordinary steam engine.
7 A dairy farmer in developed a simple machine to bore up to 600 holes a day.
8 A dairy farmer in Whitford developed a simple machine to bore up to 600 holes a day.
9 The berries are poured into a simple machine which extracts the two coffee beans encased in each berry.
10 This is essentially a simple machine .
11 This is not a simple machine .
12 Vincent, who was treated by Maulfry as if he had been a mechanism, was a very simple machine .
13 Like running a simple machine .
14 I timed the labour of this simple machine , and proved that the two men delivered 3600 gallons within an hour.
15 Recently this simple machine had become a pet project of Professor Sharon, who had advocated it as a lunar mining tool.
16 A wrench is another simple machine that amplifies a force applied at one end to produce a rotation at the other.
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