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machine
Device that amplifies or replaces human or animal effort to accomplish a physical task. A machine may be further defined as a device consisting of two or more parts that transmit or modify force and motion in order to do work. The five simple machines are the lever, the wedge, the wheel and axle, the pulley, and the screw; all complex machines are combinations of these basic devices. The operation of a machine may involve the transformation of chemical, thermal, electrical, or nuclear energy into mechanical energy, or vice versa. All machines have an input, an output, and a transforming or modifying and transmitting device. Machines that receive their input energy from a natural source (such as air currents, moving water, coal, petroleum, or uranium) and transform it into mechanical energy are known as prime movers; examples include windmills, waterwheels, turbines, steam engines, and internal-combustion engines.
marine
Member of a military force trained for service at sea and in land operations related to naval campaigns. They existed as far back as the 5th cent. BC, when the Greek fleets were manned by epibatai, or heavily armed sea soldiers. In the Middle Ages ordinary soldiers were often assigned to shipboard duty; not until the naval wars of the 17th cent. was the distinct role of marines rediscovered almost simultaneously by the British and the Dutch, who raised the first two modern marine corps, the Royal Marine (1664) and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Corps Mariniers (1665). See also U.S. Marine Corps.
Racine
French playwright and master of French classical tragedy. Orphaned at an early age, he was educated in a Jansenist convent, and he chose drama in defiance of his upbringing. His first play was produced by Moliè re in 1664. Their friendship ended when Racine took his next play, Alexandre le grand (1665), to a competing theater and seduced Moliè re's mistress and leading actress. She starred in Racine's successful Andromaque (1667), which explored his theme of the tragic folly of passionate love. His only comedy, The Litigants (1668), was followed by his great tragedies Britannicus (1669) and Bé ré nice (1670)--which together led to a breach with P. Corneille, the declining idol of older playgoers--and Bajazet (1672). After writing his masterpiece, Phè dre (1677), a tragedy drawn from Greek mythology, he retired to become official historian to Louis XIV. His final plays, Esther (1689) and Athalie (1691), were commissioned by the king's wife, Mme. de Maintenon.
Saarinen
U.S. (Finnish-born) architect. His father, Eliel Saarinen (1873-1950), was the foremost Finnish architect of his time; his major works include the Helsinki railway station (1904-14) and--after emigrating to the U.S. in 1923--the buildings of the Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Mich. (1925-41). Eero joined his father's practice after studying at Yale. His vast General Motors ...
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