simple machine

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

simple machine (plural simple machines)

1. (physics, engineering) A device that only requires the application of a single force to work.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see simple,‎ machine.

Translations

device

• Arabic: آلة بَسِيطة (ʔāla(t) basīṭa)
• Armenian: պարզ մեխանիզմ (parz mexanizm)
• Asturian: máquina cenciella
• Basque: makina sinple
• Bengali: সরল যন্ত্র (śorol jontro)
• Bulgarian: прост механизъм m (prost mehanizăm)
• Catalan: màquina simple
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 簡單機械 / 简单机械 (jiǎndān jīxiè)

• Czech: jednoduchý stroj m
• Danish: enkel maskine
• Dutch: eenvoudige machine
• Esperanto: simpla maŝino
• Finnish: alkeiskone, yksinkertainen kone
• French: machine simple f
• Galician: máquina simple f
• German: einfache Maschine f
• Hebrew: מכונה פשוטה
• Hindi: सरल यंत्र (saral yantra)
• Hungarian: egyszerű gép (hu)
• Icelandic: grunnvél
• Ido: simpla mashino
• Indonesian: pesawat sederhana
• Italian: macchina semplice f
• Japanese: 単純機械 (ja) (tanjunkikai)
• Kazakh: жай механизм (jay mexanıyzm)
• Korean: 단순 기계 (dansun gigye)
• Latvian: vienkāršs mehānisms m
• Macedonian: проста машина f (prosta mašina)
• Malayalam: ലഘുയന്ത്രം (laghuyantraṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: enkel maskin m

• Portuguese: máquina simples f
• Romanian: mașină simplă f
• Russian: простейший механизм (ru) m (prostejšij mexanizm)
• Serbo-Croatian: jednostavni stroj m
• Slovak: jednoduchý stroj m
• Slovene: jednostavna mašina f
• Spanish: máquina simple f
• Swedish: enkel maskin
• Tagalog: payak na sigmo
• Tamil: எளிய இயந்திரம் (eḷiya iyantiram)
• Telugu: సరళ యంత్రం (saraḷa yantraṁ)
• Turkish: basit makine
• Ukrainian: простий механізм m (prostyj mexanizm)
• Vietnamese: máy cơ đơn giản