alternating Turing machine

noun

A nondeterministic Turing machine containing a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the complexity classes NP and co-NP.

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Meanings

nounalternating Turing machine (countable and uncountable, plural alternating Turing machines)

plural alternating Turing machines

  1. countableuncountablecomputational complexity theorycomputerA nondeterministic Turing machine containing a rule for accepting computations that generalizes the rules used in the definition of the complexity classes NP and co-NP.
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