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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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