Other forms: conveyors
A conveyor is a moving belt that carries goods along. A conveyor belt, put it on the conveyor, the conveyor stopped.
It changed manufacturing entirely: bringing the work to the worker rather than the worker to the work is what made the assembly line possible. Conveyor belt sushi and airport baggage claim are the two most people meet daily.
1nounconveyorA moving belt that carries goods along.
“The boxes moved along the conveyor to the packing area.”
conveyor is a machine.
Latin
via — way
Vulgar Latin
*convio
Old French
conveier
Middle English
conveien
English
convey
English, today
conveyor
From convey + -or. convey comes from Middle English conveien, from Old French conveier (French convoyer), from Vulgar Latin convio, from Classical Latin via (“way”). Compare convoy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA