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 a.k.a. computer 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": Bert Kreischer (born 1973), American stand-up comedian, actor, and reality television host Albert Pujols (born 1980), Dominican-American baseball player Vimael Machín (born 1993), Puerto Rican baseball player Sasha Vujačić (born 1984), Slovenian basketball player James Wade (born 1983), English darts player Merab Dvalishvili (born 1991), Georgian mixed martial artist
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 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, a 1994 album by Paul Dean
Songs "Machines" (or 'Back to Humans'), a 1984 song by Queen "Machines" (Biffy Clyro song), 2007 "Machines" (Red Flag song), 1992 "Machine" (Imagine Dragons song), 2018 "Machine" (Theatre of Tragedy song), 2001 "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 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 Montreal Machine, an American Football team based in Canada from 1991 to 1992 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 The Machine (1977 film), a French drama film The Machine (1994 film), a French science fiction thriller film Machine (2006 film), an American action film The Machine (2013 film), a British science fiction film Machine (2017 film), a Bollywood film The Machine (2023 film), an American action comedy film Machines (Horizon), fictional robotic animals in the video game series Horizon Machines (Nier: Automata), a fictional robotic race in the video game Nier: Automata "Machines" (Silo), a 2023 television episode The Machine, a surveillance computer in the 2011–2016 American TV series Person of Interest The Machine, the interstellar-travel device in Contact a 1985 novel by Carl Sagan Machine, a character in the 1999 film 8mm Alexis Machine / George Stark, a character in the 1989 novel The Dark Half by Stephen King Machine, a 2020 novel by Elizabeth Bear "The Machine", a 2026 episode from the American animated web-series Animator vs. Animation
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 Machine (nightclub), Boston gay club
See also
Rage Against the Machine, American rock band "My Machines", a song by Battles from the album Gloss Drop Engine (disambiguation) Mechanism (disambiguation) Mechanical (disambiguation) Mechanics (disambiguation)