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g ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water. Jigging machine. (a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a templet by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for forming the…

A machine for bending or straightening rails.

A wood-working machine, for sawing, plaining, mortising, tenoning, grooving, etc.

The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule (Masonry), a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.…

hamber into which it is finally exhausted. This cycle, reversed, is used in refrigerating machines.

eter for measuring the energy in joules expended in an electric circuit or developed by a machine.

That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter.

Of or pertaining to kinematics. Kinematic curves, curves produced by machinery, or a combination of motions, as distinguished from mathematical curves.

A machine for the projection of chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture.

A machine combining a kinetoscope and a phonograph synchronized so as to reproduce a scene and its accompanying sounds.

A machine, for the production of animated pictures, in which a film carrying successive instantaneous views of a moving scene travels uniformly through the field of a magnifying glass. The observer sees each picture, momentarily, through a slit in a revolving disk, and these glimpses, blended by persistence of vision,…

. An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.

yarn or thread in a series of connected loops, by means of needles, either by hand or by machinery; as, to knit stockings.

One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. Shak.

Union formed by knitting, as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the e…

." Longfellow. A loud cry or some great knock. Holland. Knock off, a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

a cam or the like for disconnecting something, as a device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.

Saving labor; adapted to supersede or diminish the labor of men; as, laborsaving machinery.

other holes, and used in drawing and holding together parts of a garment, of a shoe, of a machine belt, etc. His hat hung at his back down by a lace. Chaucer. For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied. Spenser.

s forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler, or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.