Machine (disambiguation)
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A machine is a device that uses energy to perform some activity or task.
Machine, Machines, Machinery, The Machine, or The Machines may also refer to:
Term of art
More specific applications of the general term
- Machine (mechanical) using mechanical energy
- Machine (patent), one of the four statutory categories of patent-eligible subject matter under United States patent law
Computing
- "machine", slang for computer or Server
- Abstract machine, a theoretical model of a computer hardware or software system used in automata theory
- Turing machine, an abstract model of a computer
- Internet bot, a computer program that does automated tasks
- virtual machine, a computing machine implemented in software rather than directly in hardware
- Machine-generated data
- Abstract machine, a theoretical model of a computer hardware or software system used in automata theory
- Machines (video game), a 1999 real-time strategy game for Microsoft Windows
- The Machine (computer architecture), a computer architecture project announced in 2014 by Hewlett Packard
Personal nickname
The following are nicknamed "The Machine":
- Albert Pujols (born 1980), Dominican-American baseball player
- Sasha Vujačić (born 1984), Slovenian basketball player
- Bert Kreischer American stand-up comedian (born 1973), actor and reality television host
- James Wade (born 1983), English darts player
- Ramin Ott (born 1986), American Samoan association football player
Music
- Machine (band) a late-1970s American funk disco group
- The Machine (band), a US Pink Floyd tribute band formed in 1988
- Machinery Records, a German record label founded in 1989
- In Florence and the Machine, the band backing lead singer Florence Welch
- Machine (Higdon), a 2003 orchestral composition by Jennifer Higdon
Albums
- Machine (Artension album), a 2000 album by neo-classical progressive metal band Artension
- Machine (Crack the Sky album), a 2010 album by Crack the Sky
- Machine (Static-X album), a 2001 album by Static-X
- Machine (EP), a 2002 EP by Yeah Yeah Yeahs and also the title of a single from that EP
- Machines (EP), a 1966 EP by Manfred Mann
Songs
- "Machines" (or 'Back to Humans'), a 1984 song by Queen
- "Machines" (song), a 2007 song by Biffy Clyro
- "Machine" (Theatre of Tragedy song), a 2001 song by Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy
- "The Machine" a song from Deathcore band, In the Midst of Lions
- "The Machine", a 2006 song by Angels and Airwaves, from the album We Don't Need to Whisper
- "The Machine", a 2007 song by Reverend and the Makers, from the album The State of Things
- "The Machines", a marching band work composed by Gary P. Gilroy
- "Machines", a song by The Jealous Girlfriends from The Jealous Girlfriends
- "Machine", a 2009 song by Regina Spektor from the album Far
Sports
- Chicago Machine (MLL), a major league lacrosse team based in Bridgeport, Illinois
- The Machines (professional wrestling), a tag team in the 1980s
- The Machine, character associated with Brian Wilson
- La Máquina (Spanish for "the Machine"), nickname of the River Plate association football team of the early 1940s
Fiction
- Machine (novel), a 1930 Japanese novel by Riichi Yokomitsu
- Machine (film), a 2007 American film
- The Machine (film), a 2013 British science fiction film
- The Machine, a surveillance computer from the TV series Person of Interest
- The Machine, the interstellar-travel device in Contact by Carl Sagan
- Machine, a character in 8mm
Others
- Mount Machine, mountain in Japan
- Slang for answering machine
- Political machine, a vote-delivering and political power-broking system
- AMC Machine, 1970 and 1971 muscle cars built by the American Motors Corporation (AMC)
- The Machine (social group), a University of Alabama coalition of fraternities and sororities
- The Machine: Bride of Pin•Bot, a 1991 pinball machine made by Williams
See also
- All pages beginning with "Machine"
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