Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

state machine

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.85 in modern English

Syllables: state -ma-chine
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Ellipsis of finite-state machine.

noun

The state machinery; state apparatus.

Example Sentences

"This algorithm will produce a state machine for parsing a given context-free grammar."

Inflected Forms

state machines (plural)

Questions

What does state machine mean?: Ellipsis of finite-state machine.

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