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information engines

information engines is the plural of information engine.

Meaning of information engine

Noun

information engine (plural information engines)

  1. A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
  2. (data processing) A data processor.
    • As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.”2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information, Columbia University Press, →ISBN

Questions about information engines

What is information engines the plural of?
Information engines is the plural of information engine.

Words near information engines in the dictionary

  1. information design
  2. information desk
  3. information desks
  4. information drive
  5. information engine
  6. information engines
  7. information entropy
  8. information fatigue
  9. information fatigue syndrome
  10. information float
  11. information floats

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