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machine
📅 Updated:2025-10-05
🕒 Created:2011-07-02
🆔 ID:1948
Description
A machine manages energy to accomplish a task, examples include, a mechanical system, a computing system, an electronic system, a molecular machine and a biological machine. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work. A simple machine is a device that transforms the direction or magnitude of a force.
A machine performs work via forces and movement. Electronics / electrical devices such as televisions, cellphones, digital watches, etc. are not considered machines as their primary functions do not involve these aspects.
See also:
- machine
Forum discussion:
- forum #141131 - Cyborgs, Androids, and Robots. Oh my! (Oct. 2014)
- forum #145008 - Calling all robot, android, mecha, etc. experts! (wiki project) (Dec. 2014)
- forum #466898 - Is a mobile phone a machine? (Sept. 2025)
