Machine (disambiguation)

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) device designed to apply forces and control movement
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
- 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 (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
Machine (producer), American record producer
The Machine (band), a US Pink Floyd tribute band formed in 1988
The Machines (band), an English punk rock band
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
Machine (Paul Dean album), a 1994 album by Paul Dean

Songs

"Machines" (or 'Back to Humans'), a 1984 song by Queen
"Machines" (song), a 2007 song by Biffy Clyro
"Machine" (Imagine Dragons song), a 2018 song by Imagine Dragons
"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 & 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 Machine", a 2008 song by Lemon Demon from the album View Monster
"The Machines", a marching band work composed by Gary P. Gilroy
"Machines", a song by The Jealous Girlfriends from the eponymous album
"Machine", a 2009 song by Regina Spektor from the album Far
"Machine", a 1998 song by Vixen from the album Tangerine
"Machine", a 2018 song by Anne-Marie from the album Speak Your Mind

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 (Richard), a character in the 2013 Irish film The Stag (also called The Bachelor Weekend)
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 (2006 film), an American film
Machine (2017 film), a Bollywood film
The Machine (film), a 2013 British science fiction film
The Machine, a surveillance computer from the 2011–2016 American TV series Person of Interest
The Machine, the interstellar-travel device in Contact by Carl Sagan
Machine, a character in the 1999 film 8mm

Other uses

Mount Machine, mountain in Japan
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

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