Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

x-machine

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.72 in modern English

Syllables: x--ma-chine
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A theoretical computer that operates on some fundamental data type X. It is a structurally the same as a finite-state machine, but each transition represents the application of a relation of type X→X.

Inflected Forms

X-machines (plural)

Synonyms

Eilenberg machine

Questions

What does x-machine mean?: A theoretical computer that operates on some fundamental data type X. It is a structurally the same as a finite-state machine, but each transition represents the application of a relation of type X→X.

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