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n. The mechanisms that function internally to a system and are not outwardly visible
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Inner Workings is an upcoming American hand-drawn/ computer-animated adventure short film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. It is directed by Leo Matsuda and produced by Sean Lurie. It will be played in theatres on November 23, 2016 along with Walt Disney Pictures' Moana.
Usage examples of "inner workings".
But once a day, it does something special, involving more doors, and once a week, something even specialer, and, for all I know, at the year, decade, and century marks, rows of great doors, all sealed shut by dust and age, creak open, driven by sudden descent of ancient weights on rusted chains, and the whole inner workings of the thing unfold through those openings.
Then they began the slow process whereby Randall, subjected for increasing lengths of time to artificial stimuli, yielded up the inner workings of his brain and gave clues thereby to the inner workings of all brains, those that were called normal as well as those like his own.
What was less reassuring, she realized, was the utter alienness that she had glimpsed of the inner workings of the Thurien mind.
It was at that moment that Irina almost told him that she had found his ghost in the machine, that she knew much of the inner workings of White Star, including the identity of its leader.
From the east wing, through state rooms far bigger than the inside of Great Aldgate Station to narrow stairways which contained the inner workings of this great palace, which was at least as complex as the largest factory.
The inner workings of his body began to manufacture the true spice-essence.
Now, if younot object, let us turn our attention to the inner workings of themachine.
Now, if you do not object, let us turn our attention to the inner workings of the Turing machine.