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The term "Machina" may refer to:
- Machina (band), an alternative metal band
- Machina (company), a clothing brand company specializing in wearable technology
- Machina/The Machines of God, an album by The Smashing Pumpkins
- Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music, another album by The Smashing Pumpkins
- A machine-based weapon in Baten Kaitos Origins
- A powered machine in Final Fantasy X
- A 1940s car in Cuba, also known as yank tank
- Deus ex machina, a literary device sometimes used in a work of fiction
- Queen Machina, one of the main villains from Power Rangers Zeo
- Machina, Nigeria, a Local Government Area in Yoba State
- Machina, an archetype of Yugioh cards.
- The Machina, a weapon for the Sniper Class in the game Team Fortress 2
Machina is a clothing brand company specializing in wearable technology.
The company attempted to make a MIDI controlling jacket. A 2012 review in TechCrunch called the jacket "a cool concept and an interesting and kinetic way to trigger and control beats and sounds."
A Kickstarter project in 2013 produced a prototype, with a delay of almost a year behind the projected delivery date. Since then, there have been no substantial updates and the announced open source hardware has not materialized.
Usage examples of "machina".
Ex Machina also shows Padgett as a science-fiction humorist, in which capacity he has been almost a pioneer within a notoriously humorless field of writing.
But finally Mademoiselle grows weary and returns to her machine, where the gallant and attentive gentleman previously referred to patiently awaits her--deus ex machina in more senses than one!
Into this atmosphere of general mistrust and apprehension came the most ridiculous Deus ex machina that ever was in the person of the very young and very rash Marc Antoine Jullien.
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
Admittedly, they did not know how to nab, stab, or otherwise stop that one-armed lunatic without throwing away a fortune in legal fees and court costs, but they kept hoping desperately that some land of deus ex machina would intercede for them.
He fights the Midnight Stranger and sometimes Zeus ex Machina, and never anyone lame like the Sandbagger or Al K.
Inter marmoreas Leonorae pendula colles Fortunata nimis Machina dicit horas.
Illa tamen bimanus custodit machina portam, Stricta, paratque malis plagam non amplius unam.
To-night she seemed like a sort of dea ex machina, who sat apart, playing on the passions of a group of puppet men whom she set against each other until all should be involved in a common ruin.
The mob had stopped staring at the deus ex machina and was now marching once again toward the children.
Otherwise it looks like a deus ex machina (which of course it is).
The urge to laugh had dissipated when he realized that Annie might know everything about the deus ex machina except the name.
The variable, the martian, the deus ex machina, was out of the picture.
He was deus ex machina, the angel who descends on a string to set everything right, and incidentally to ruin the story.
If no deus ex machina appears at this interesting juncture, the whole turns into a sad, sad, long-drawn-out, ultimately squalid tragedy.