Meanings
nouninformation engine (plural information engines)
plural information engines
- natural sciencesA theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
- data processingA data processor.
As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.”
2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information, Columbia University Press, →ISBN
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