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Etymology

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From super- +‎ machine.

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Noun

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supermachine (plural supermachines)

  1. Any very powerful machine.
    • 2009 May 24, John Markoff, “The Coming Superbrain”, in New York Times[1]:
      That has led to no shortage of raised eyebrows among hard-nosed technologists in the engineering culture here, some of whom describe the Kurzweilian romance with supermachines as a new form of religion.