an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end | the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials |
the quality of being instrumental for some purpose | the act of moving something from one location to another |
a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose | something that serves as a means of transportation |
| a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder |
| an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes |
| a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion |