analytical engine
Noun
Meaning
analytical engine (plural analytical engines)
(computing) A mechanical general-purpose computer, designed by Charles Babbage but never built.
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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science.
The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.
As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise - by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.