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submachines

submachines is the plural of submachine.

Meaning of submachine

Noun

submachine (plural submachines)

  1. A machine forming part of a larger machine.
    1. A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right.
      • In the same computation, the computer may be decomposed repeatedly and the partitioning may vary from one split to the other. The submachines can further recursively decompose […]1999, Martin Beran, “Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers”, in SOFSEM '99: Theory and Practice of Informatics, →ISBN, page 351

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Questions about submachines

What is submachines the plural of?
Submachines is the plural of submachine.

Words near submachines in the dictionary

  1. submachine
  2. submachine gun
  3. submachine guns
  4. submachinegun
  5. submachineguns
  6. submachines
  7. submacroblock
  8. submacroblocks
  9. submacroscale
  10. submacroscopic
  11. submacular

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