micromachineryn.
/ˈmʌɪkrə(ʊ)məˌʃiːn(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkroʊməˌʃin(ə)ri/ Micromachines and their components.
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1986 Electronics Week (Nexis) 18 Sept. 114 Transensory has been a research and development firm specializing in microsensors and micromachinery.
1988 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 27 Mar. 64/1 We may be wrong in our predictions, since the micro machinery business is about where the computer industry was in 1950.
1991 Electronic Musician Nov. 20/2 For a long time, micromachinery has been in the category of ‘Cute, but what is it good for?’
1996 Economist 23 Nov. 141/3 Worthy and dull, however, seems to be the way that Japanese micromachinery is going.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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