megamachines

Noun

megamachine (plural megamachines)

1. A very large or powerful machine (or computer).
   • In the early days of the Large Hadron Collider, when the megamachine kept running into seemingly endless, and increasingly improbable, financial and technical snags, some researchers—calling these mishaps “anti-miracles”—even half-seriously proposed that the universe was censoring us from this sort...2018 March 15, Peter Brannen, “Why Earth's History Appears So Miraculous”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 16 Jul 2025
2. The convergence of science, economy, technics, and political power.
   • The megamachine, as he termed it, engendered a bogus existence—material, intellectual and spiritual—that reduced human endeavor to a series of ciphers.1990 January 27, “Lewis Mumford Dies at 94; A Visionary Social Critic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2026