(This entry is a translation hub.) a machine specially built to be used to play games of pinball

(obsolete) An early steam engine.

plural of fire machine

(computing) A real or emulated computer that uses a pushdown stack rather than individual machine registers to evaluate each subexpression in a program.

plural of stack machine

plural of pinball machine

plural of step machine

plural of Mealy machine

(computing theory) A finite-state machine whose output values are determined solely by its current state.

(computing theory) A finite-state machine whose output values are determined by both its current state and its current inputs.