Is an equipment kind of machine? or machine kind of equipment?

Question

is an equipment kind of machine?

machine kind of equipment?

can you please explain!...thanks a lot..

Answer 1

'Equipment' can be a tool or tools, or a particular thing or group of items needed to perform a particular function or task.

A machine is a perfect example of 'equipment' – a device designed to do something.

By the same definition, other 'equipment' was required to make that machine.

Equipped with the right ingredients or tools, you can create or build anything, but not everything becomes 'equipment'.

You need equipment to make a cake, but a cake is not equipment.

An artist uses equipment (canvas, easel, paint, palette and brushes) to create a painting.

Get the idea?

Answer 2

Perhaps we could consider them as equivalents - different names of the same category / class of things.  The finer differences are in the context of the references.

In that light, machine could be understood by the mechanical nature of the device -- a thing build up of simple machines.  Equipment would be understood by the usefulness of the device to achieve or assist in some form of work.

A close analogy would be buildings and architectures.

Answer 3

equipment doesn't need a machine except maybe to creat it. a machine needs equipment to operate. except if the equipment is a machine or the machine is some sort of equipment. Therefore equipment can be a machine and a machine can be equipment. Let me explain this theory. A machine can't exist apart from the equipment and the equipment can't exist apart from the machine. So therefore they are both inclusive. They can not exist without each other. Take away the equipment and you have no machine. Take away the machine and you have no equipment. I call this theory The Equipment Machine theory.

Answer 4

See, for the engineer, machine is one of their equipments, so i say machine is kind of equipment. Equipment consists of many things, and machine is one of it. Here's an analogy. Lets change the word equipment with women's wear and change the word machine with skirt. So, is it women's wear is kind of skirt? Or skirt kind of women's wear? Skirt is absolutely a women's wear, but is women's wear is a skirt? Not really, there are bras, panties, bikinis, etc. Hope u understand.

Answer 5

a mchine is equipment or can be equipment since not all equipment must be a machine. A piece of equipment could be as simple as a hat or a shirt. Or as complex as a gun, or a PDA. But they're all forms of equipment, where as a machine is only one of those types, or can be. I'm not saying all machines must be equipment or all equipment involves machine. Just my thoughts about this.

Answer 6

They're the same thing.

Answer 7

In the spirit of High-School Gemomentry, might I offer:

'All machines are a form of equipment, but not-all equipment are machines'

1) I would define a machine as something that leverages your capacity to do work(from simple machines from the inclined plane to pulley's and the like)

2) I would define equipment as anything that improves your quality of life short-term or long-term...(From real-intangible sources like an Education, helful-advice, street-smarts, to more tangible stuff like a place to live, dishes, etc..)

3) As you can see, some equipment like education, street-smarts, aren't as tangible as a machine like your BMW, Power-tools, or Block-and-Tackle is.. though that very equipment can help you improve your use and the results you get from the use of such machines...

4) If you 'equip' your machines with the right and most efficient knowledge of the user behind the machine, any task such a user will set out to do will be able to do so in a fraction of the time... and from such an experience be more-equipped to design an even more efficient machine.

5) Machines are waiting to be equipped to work in the way they were designed to do.  Equipment is everything tangible and intangible to make it so.

Answer 8

equipment is a kind of machine because machine is a kind of equipment.