heavy machinery
English
editNoun
edit- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, machinery.
- Industrial machinery that is large and heavy.
- You shouldn't operate heavy machinery without a licence.
- 1991, China Machinery Industries Yearbook, page 35:
- The heavy machinery industry of China, including the manufacture of iron and steel plant, rolling mill, heavy—duty forging and pressing machinery, large forgings and castings, etc., developed along a hard and tortuous road from small products to huge ones, from single machines to complete plants after the birth of New China.
- 1998, Paul Garvin, Iowa's minerals: their occurrence, origins, industries, and lore[1]:
- Completion of the railroad allowed heavy machinery to be brought to the mine, including a 40-meter rotary kiln.
Translations
editindustrial machinery that is large and heavy
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References
edit- “heavy-machinery”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
- “heavy machinery”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.