workings
noun
Meaning
- (usually in the plural) Operation; action.
- Method of operation.
- The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem.
- Fermentation.
- (of bodies of water) Becoming full of a vegetable substance.
- A place where work is carried on.
- The internal mechanism of some device or system.
- The parts of a quarry or mine that are being (or has been) worked.
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