Turing machine
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
Turing machine/ˈtjʊərɪŋ/
▶noun a mathematical model of a hypothetical computing machine which can use a predefined set of rules to determine a result from a set of input variables.
– origin named after the English mathematician Alan Turing (1912–54).
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