Word Study 19

A hole, gap, slit, or other opening

• centrifuge

• aperture

• apparatus

• gauage

The arrangement of connected parts in a machine

• mechanism

• treadmill

• aperture

• laser

A tool used to measure pressure, temperature, water level, thickness, speed. To evaluate or judge

• generator

• component

• gauge

• laser

A rapidly spinning machine that is used to separate two substances that have different weights and densities

• prism

• centrifuge

• apparatus

• aperture

A machine that changes mechanical energy into electrical energy

• apparatus

• component

• generator

• mechanism

Tools or other equipment that is put to a specific use; a group of parts used together for a particular job

• apparatus

• gauge

• prism

• centrifuge

A machine consisting of a wheel or revolving belt on which a person walks

• treadmill

• laser

• gauge

• prism

A piece of transparent material that bends light and separates it into the colors of the rainbow

• laser

• prism

• component

• mechanism

An electronic device that sends out an intense beam of energy in the form of light waves

• prism

• component

• laser

• aperture

Any of the parts that together make up the whole

• apparatus

• mechanism

• component

• treadmill