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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. certain simple instruments, such as the lever and its modifications (the wheel and axle and the pulley), the inclined plane with its modifications (the screw and the wedge), which convert a small force acting through a great space into a great force acting through a small space, or vice versa, and are used separately or in combination.
  2. n. See under Mechanical.

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  • “The contest was continued by an incessant and mutual discharge of missile weapons; and the superiority which the Romans might derive from the mechanical powers of their balistae and catapultae was counterbalanced by the advantage of the ground on the side of the besieged.”

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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  1. wedge
  1. wheel and axle
  1. elementary machine
  1. mechanical
  1. jack
  1. lever
  1. peritrochium
  1. axis in peritrochio
  1. engine

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