Machine, A device or apparatus consisting of, fined and moving parts that work together to perform some function, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 961.
Machine, includes prime movers, transmission machinery and all other appliances whereby power is generated, transferred, transmitted or applied to a dangerous machine. [Dangerous Machines (Regulation) Act, 1983 (35 of 1983), s. 3 (i)]
Machine, the meaning of the word 'machine' according to the dictionary in a popular and mechanical sense is '....... more or less complex combination of mechanical parts, as levers, gears, sprocket wheels, pulleys, shafts and spindles, ropes, chains, and bands, cams and other turning and sliding pieces, springs, confined fluids etc. together with the frame work and fastenings, supporting and connecting them, as when it is designed to operate upon material to change it in some pre-conceived and definite manner, Sales Tax Commissioner v. Ladha Mal, AIR 1971 SC 2221 (2222): (1971) 2 SCC 407.