state machine

noun — 2 senses

state machine

noun

1

Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of finite-state machine.

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

2

Marxism The state machinery; state apparatus.

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