complex machine

collocation in English

meaningsofcomplexandmachine

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complex
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/kɑːmˈpleks/
involving a lot of different but ...
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machine
noun[C]
uk
/məˈʃiːn/us
/məˈʃiːn/
a piece of equipment with several moving parts that uses power to do a particular type ...
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(Definition ofcomplexandmachinefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The first tendency is to build acomplexmachinethat will simplify the operations and permit a more regular and controlled result.
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But it is of necessity a huge andcomplexmachine.
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How is the future funding of thecomplexmachinethat he has outlined going to work?
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I do not know why anybody expects the economy, which is acomplexmachine, to be balanced all the time.
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If you have a pack of fools constantly throwing sand and gravel into thecomplexmachineof industry, you will never get it to work.
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Beyond that again, if all goes well, we might hope for a still larger and morecomplexmachinein which the thermo-nuclear energy is converted to electricity.
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High level machine instructions, made possible by microcode, helped further, as fewer morecomplexmachineinstructions require less memory bandwidth.
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The basic spectrohelioscope is acomplexmachinethat uses a spectroscope to scan the surface of the sun.
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This was acomplexmachineto operate, but with a skilled operator could produce recognizable speech.
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The brain is often described as the mostcomplexmachinein the known universe.
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This orrery is a planetarium in both senses of the word: acomplexmachineshowing planetary orbits, and a theatre for depicting the planets' movement.
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The pages reveal acomplexmachineallowing for one human occupant inside a pod to be dropped into three spinning rings.
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This was acomplexmachineto operate.
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Ultron has occasionally reformed itself with a humanoid appearance above the waist and the appearance of acomplexmachine, including tractor beam apparatus for flight, below the waist.
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Production was automated, with many complex machines installed for mass production.
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Not only do patients have to face daily treatment by large complex machines but also their daily routine is often interrupted for periods of several months.
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Individual and complete, they have the quality of simple mechanisms rather than complex machines, and resist any attempt to break them down into their component parts.
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This is nontrivial for complex machines.
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Man-machine metaphors travel by a spiral rather than a circle: at each stage new, more complex machines provide metaphors for more sophisticated physiological concepts, and vice versa.
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