A mechanical or electrical device that performs or assists in the performance of human tasks, whether physical or computational, laborious or for entertainment
A person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional
The government has become a money-making machine.
A device with fixed and moving parts that modifies mechanical energy in order to do work
A machine is a piece of equipment which uses electricity or an engine in order to do a particular kind of work. I put the coin in the machine and pulled the lever a color photograph of the sort taken by machine to be pasted in passports
If you machine something, you make it or work on it using a machine. The material is machined in a factory All parts are machined from top grade, high tensile aluminium. machined brass zinc alloy gears. + machining ma·chin·ing our machining, fabrication and finishing processes
an actual machine in the mind (like ordinary machinery), constructed out of mental mass and energy, that has been made by the individual to do work for him, usually having been set up so as to come into operation automatically under certain predetermined circumstances See also mental mass
a device for doing useful work - one in which a force applied at one point is used to overcome a force at another
with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine
a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point
any mechanical or electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks a device for overcoming resistance at one point by applying force at some other point a group that controls the activities of a political party; "he was endorsed by the Democratic machine"
Table describing the machine associated with a particular tracefile machine_id - Primary key nickname - Name used to identify the machine architecture - The type of machine (e g , Cray T3) description - Free-form description of the run-time environment proc_speed - The speed of the macine's processor overall_proc_quantity - The number of processors the machine has overall_memory_size - The size of the machine's memory cache_size - The size of the machine's cache area clock_sync - Binary descriptor (yes/no) clock_rollover - Binary descriptor (yes/no) clock_resolution - The degree of accuracy of the machine's clock
4-wheeled motor vehicle; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work"
A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine