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:
“Yet nightly pitch my moving tent,
A day’s march nearer home.”
—James Montgomery (1771–1854)
“Rice and peas fit into that category of dishes where two ordinary foods, combined together, ignite a pleasure far beyond the capacity of either of its parts alone. Like rhubarb and strawberries, apple pie and cheese, roast pork and sage, the two tastes and textures meld together into the sort of subtle transcendental oneness that we once fantasized would be our experience when we finally found the ideal mate.”
—John Thorne, U.S. cookbook writer. Simple Cooking, “Rice and Peas: A Preface with Recipes,” Viking Penguin (1987)