brain machinen.
/ˈbreɪn məˌʃiːn/, U.S. /ˈbreɪn məˌʃin/ 1. A person, considered as a machine for thinking. Also: the brain, considered as a machine.
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the world > people > person > [noun] > as having character or qualities > specific
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1858 R. D. Bulwer-Lytton World & his Wife I. ii. 48 Now for fifteen years, Mark Melville had been Lord Portarjis's brain-machine.
1908 A. Wilson Educ., Personality & Crime xxii. 233 The dullard probably has an all-round poor brain machine of low potential.
1946 Sci. Monthly June 479/2 Logic is an index, through function, of how the brain machine is constructed.
2002 S. Harney State Work i. 18 There was little exploration of these workers as brain machines embodying state practices.
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a. A machine used to affect, examine, or monitor the brain.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > other specific machines > [noun]
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1872 Birmingham Daily Post 5 Jan. 4/5 That is too much to hope, unless the gifted inventor of nose machines [sc. devices to improve the shape of the nose] will also fabricate heart machines and brain machines.
1975 Observer 2 Nov. 16/5 EMI will also be announcing improvements to the original brain machine, so that its market is not eroded by the CT 5000, which can be used equally easily for brain or body examinations.
1994 Science 3 Sept. 36/1 Quadruple your reading speed and build self-esteem! Enthusiastic claims for the ‘brain machine’ that looks like a cross between a Walkman and pair of sunglasses.
2001 O. Hammer Claiming Knowl. v. 242 Brain machines use blinking lamps to display and give meaning to various brain states that are otherwise not readily distinguishable.
b. A machine, esp. a computer, likened to a brain.
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1932 Sci. News-let. 19 Nov. 320/2 The new mathematical ‘brain’ machine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has solved over a thousand equations.
1959 Manch. Guardian 12 Aug. 7/3 The ‘brain’ machine which gives thousands of answers in Russian at the United States exhibition in Moscow.
1997 B. Goertel in M. Gams et al. Mind versus Computer 26 Until we understand the workings of the human brain, or build massively MIMD parallel ‘brain machines’, the psynet model will remain in large part an unproven hypothesis.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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