Word.ws English Dictionary

Zeno machine

Zeno machine noun: a hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps.

Noun

Zeno machine (plural Zeno machines)

  1. A hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps.

Forms of Zeno machine

pluralZeno machines

Origin of Zeno machine

Named in reference to Zeno's paradoxes.

Questions about Zeno machine

What does Zeno machine mean?
Zeno machine means a hypothetical computational model, related to Turing machines, that would be capable of carrying out computations involving a countably infinite number of algorithmic steps.
What part of speech is Zeno machine?
Zeno machine is a noun.
What is the plural of Zeno machine?
The plural of Zeno machine is Zeno machines.

Words near Zeno machine in the dictionary

  1. Zennish
  2. Zennist
  3. Zennists
  4. Zennor
  5. Zeno
  6. Zeno machine
  7. Zeno machines
  8. Zeno's paradox
  9. Zeno's paradoxes
  10. zeno-
  11. Zenoan

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Zeno machine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Zeno machine.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zeno_machine. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.