ˈenjə̇nrē, -ri noun
( -es )
Etymology: engine (I) + -ery, -ry
1. obsolete : the art of constructing or managing engines, especially military engines
2.
a. : instruments of war
b. : machines, tools, and mechanical devices (as of a plant or an industry or for the carrying out of a process)
the complex enginery of a modern refining plant
broadly : plant 3a
the physical elements of this marvelous enginery for multiplying man's powers and possibilities are three — tracks, trains, locomotive power — R.S.Henry
c. : things that underlie and form a basis for the functioning of something : machinery 4
Keats was beginning … to bring forward the vast enginery of his mind to attack the riddle of life in its deeper aspects, when death cut him short — G.M.Trevelyan
the subtler and cruder enginery of threat — H.A.Overstreet
a ponderous enginery of statistics, graphs, and mathematical devices