Equipment vs. Machine — What's the Difference?

Necessary set.

Mechanical apparatus.

Tools or devices.

Engine-powered.

Utility in activities.

Electrical device.

Professional apparatus.

Manufacturing tool.

The act of equipping or the state of being equipped

A machine is any physical system with ordered structural and functional properties. It may represent human-made or naturally occurring device molecular machine that uses power to apply forces and control movement to perform an action.

Something with which a person, organization, or thing is equipped

A device consisting of fixed and moving parts that redirects mechanical energy to accomplish a particular task or set of tasks.

The rolling stock especially of a transportation system.

See simple machine.

The mental and emotional resources of an individual

See compound machine.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

A system or device for doing work, as an automobile or jackhammer, together with its power source and auxiliary equipment.

Any items used in equipping something or someone, for example things needed for an expedition or voyage.

A system or device, such as a computer, that performs or assists in the performance of a human task

The male genitalia.

An intricate natural system or organism, such as the human body.

The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.

A person who acts in a rigid, mechanical, or unconscious manner.

Whatever is used in equipping; necessaries for an expedition or voyage; the collective designation for the articles comprising an outfit; equipage; as, a railroad equipment (locomotives, cars, etc. ; for carrying on business); horse equipments; infantry equipments; naval equipments; laboratory equipments.

An organized group of people whose members are or appear to be under the control of one or more leaders

An instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

A device used to produce a stage effect, especially a mechanical means of lowering an actor onto the stage.

Sports gear.

A literary device used to produce an effect, especially the introduction of a supernatural being to resolve a plot.

An answering machine

Of, relating to, or felt to resemble a machine

To cut, shape, or finish by machine.

To be cut, shaped, or finished by machine

A device that directs and controls energy, often in the form of movement or electricity, to produce a certain effect.

(dated) A vehicle operated mechanically, such as an automobile or an airplane.

An answering machine or, by extension, voice mail.

(computing) A computer.

(figuratively) A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional.

Especially, the group that controls a political or similar organization; a combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use.

(poetry) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

The system of special interest groups that supports a political party, especially in urban areas.

Penis.

(historical) A contrivance in the Ancient Greek theatre for indicating a change of scene, by means of which a god might cross the stage or deliver a divine message; the deus ex machina.

(obsolete) A bathing machine.

To make by machinery.

To shape or finish by machinery; (usually, more specifically) to shape subtractively by metal-cutting with machine-controlled toolpaths.

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends; the Tammany machine.

Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks

An intricate organization that accomplishes its goals efficiently;

An efficient person;

4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine;

A group that controls the activities of a political party;

A device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point

Turn, shape, mold, or otherwise finish by machinery

Make by machinery;

Automated device.

A machine is a device that uses energy to perform a specific task, often with moving parts.

Equipment refers to the set of tools needed for a particular activity or purpose.

Manual tools like hammers and screwdrivers are equipment but not machines.

Yes, equipment can include multiple machines among other tools.

Cameras, tripods, and lighting rigs, which may include machines like motorized sliders.

A computer is a machine, and when used with other devices like printers, it becomes part of a set of equipment.

Yes, though it often implies a collection of items.

Not all; machines can be mechanical, electronic, or a combination.

It provides the necessary tools to efficiently complete a task.

Kitchen machines perform specific tasks, like blenders or mixers.

It's equipment, designed to protect the user.

Yes, as not all tasks require mechanized tools.

A robot is a machine and can be part of larger equipment systems.

Automation typically involves the use of machines to reduce manual intervention.

Some do, while others operate automatically or with minimal human input.