information engine

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Noun

information engine (plural information engines)

  1. (thermodynamics) A theoretical engine that converts information into energy for use in work, decreasing heat entropy in the process.
  2. (data processing) A data processor.
    • 2021, Michele Kennerly et al., editors, Information‎, Columbia University Press, →ISBN:
      As one of its engineers blogged in 2012, Google was transforming itself from an “information engine” to a “knowledge engine.”

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