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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 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

• All pages with titles beginning with Machine
• All pages with titles containing Machine
• 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)