Usually means: System managing states through transitions.
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General (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. state machine: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. state machine: Wiktionary
  3. state machine: Dictionary.com
  4. State Machine, State machine (LabVIEW programming), State machine: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. state machine: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. state machine: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  3. state machine: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. state machine: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (state machine)

noun:  (Marxism) The state machinery; state apparatus.
noun:  (computing theory) Ellipsis of finite-state machine. [(computing theory) A formalism for describing computation, consisting of a finite set of states and a transition function describing when to move from one state to another.]

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