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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point [syn: machine, simple machine]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: circa 1704 any of various elementary mechanisms formerly considered as the elements of which all machines are composed and including the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the wedge, and the screw
