The moving parts of a machine are those parts of it that move. Machines comprise both moving (or movable) and fixed parts. The moving parts have controlled and constrained motions.
Moving parts do not include any moving fluids, such as fuel, coolant or hydraulic fluid. Moving parts also do not include any mechanical locks, switches, nuts and bolts, screw caps for bottles (the cap used to cover a water bottle when not in use) etc.
Read more about Moving Parts: Mechanical Efficiency and Wear, Failure, Kinetic Energy of The Moving Parts of A Machine, Representing Moving Parts in Engineering Diagrams
Famous quotes containing the words moving and/or parts:
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
“Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate
With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes
That sparkling blaz’d, his other Parts besides
Prone on the Flood, extended long and large
Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge
As whom the Fables name of monstrous size,
Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr’d on Jove,
Briarios or Typhon, whom the Den
By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast
Leviathan,”
—John Milton (1608–1674)