Artifact that can receive some form of energy and turn it into another or especially into a job. It is a word that comes to us from the Latin machina, ae ("machine, ingenuity, scheme"), but this takes it from the Greek 956; 945; 967; 945; 957; 945; (makhaná "machine, trick, stratagem"). By extension it is some apparatus or place specific to a context, as in the "locomotive machine" or the "engine room".
