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heavy machinery en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Industrial machinery specially designed to execute construction tasks, most frequently involving earthwork operations.
    • Completion of the railroad allowed heavy machinery to be brought to the mine, including a 40-meter rotary kiln. 1998, Paul Garvin, Iowa's minerals: their occurrence, origins, industries, and lore:
    • You shouldn't operate heavy machinery without a licence.
    • 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. 1991, China Machinery Industries Yearbook, page 35:
  2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see heavy, machinery.

Relateds

heavy lifting · heavy-duty

Synonyms

heavy equipment

Translations (4)

pl ciężka maszyneria (industrial machinery that is large and heavy) · fi raskas koneisto (industrial machinery that is large and heavy) · es maquinaria pesada (industrial machinery that is large and heavy) · fi raskaat koneet (industrial machinery that is large and heavy)