submachine
English
Etymology 1
Noun
submachine (plural submachines)
- (computer science) A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right
- 1999, Martin Beran, “Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers”, in SOFSEM '99: Theory and Practice of Informatics[1], →ISBN, page 351:
- 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 […]
Etymology 2
Shortened from submachine gun
Adjective
submachine (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to a submachine gun