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state machine

noun state machines

  1. 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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noun ellipsis of finite-state machine

中文狀態機 /状态机 zhuàngtàijī

noun state apparatus

中文國家機器 /国家机器 guójiā jīqì

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@misc{state_machine_2026,
  title = {state machine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/state%20machine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}