0 a piece of equipment that you can stand on to find out your weight, or place an object on to find its weight:
Refined mechanical engineering is an essential element in weighing machine construction.
Some weights and measures inspectors have been drawn from the weighing machine industry and were first-class mechanics long before they became inspectors.
They would spend their time putting cuts of meat on the weighing machine and having altercations with the shopkeeper.
I am quite sure they do the same thing with the weighing machine.
The cost of converting an existing weighing machine to operate in metric and imperial units would be between £60 and £145.
A weighing machine cannot weigh the torso of a human being and discount the limbs.
For example, one makes a weighing machine balance by adding weights to the appropriate pan.
It is a simple little weighing machine only a few inches high, and one simply drives the lorry on to it.