machinery

noun4

1. •
   The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.

   • All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind. — 2013
2. •
   The working parts of a machine as a group.
3. •
   The collective parts of something which allow it to function.

   • All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.
4. •
   (figurative) The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.