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 can 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
• 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, Dominican-American baseball player
• Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
• Bert Kreischer American stand-up comedian, actor and reality television host
• James Wade, English darts player
• Ramin Ott, 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

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), an 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 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 (baseball)
• 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 (novel) by Carl Sagan
• Machine, a character in 8mm (film)

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"