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What is a compound machine?

What is a compound machine? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) Any combination of simple machines working together
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The ideal mechanical advantage of a compound machine is the product of the ideal mechanical advantages of the simple machines of which it is comprised.
In any compound machine, its power is to the weights in the compound ratio of the power to the weight in all the simple machines that compose it.
The mechanical advantage of a compound machine is much greater than that of a simple machine.
Working from a photo of an ornamental jade burial ring made around 600 B. C. E., Lu concluded that the object's curved spiral grooves must have been made with the help of a precision compound machine.
The ideal mechanical advantage of a compound machine is the product of the ideal mechanical advantages of its components.
When two or more of the simple mechanical powers are made to act in conjunction, to produce a given effect, the contrivance resulting from the union is called a compound machine.

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