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

 * 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

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
 * Machine (2006 film), an American film
 * Machine (2017 film), a Bollywood film
 * The Machine (2013 film), a British science fiction film
 * The Machine (2023 film), an American action comedy film
 * Machines (Nier: Automata), a fictional robotic race in the video game Nier: Automata
 * 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

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