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Major appliance

A major appliance is a large machine which accomplishes some routine housekeeping task, which includes purposes such as cooking, food preservation, or cleaning, whether in a household, institutional, commercial or industrial setting. An appliance is differentiated from a plumbing fixture[?] because it uses an energy input for its operation other than water.

Major appliances are differentiated from small appliances because they are large, difficult to move, and generally fixed in place to some extent. They may be roughly divided into refrigeration equipment, stoves[?], washing equipment, and miscellaneous.

In the distinction White goods / brown goods most are white goods.

Major appliances include:



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