pinball machine
Noun
Meaning
game equipment on which pinball is played
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Examples
No, George said, you don't understand. The pinball machine--any pinball machine you play in any penny arcade--is so remarkable, so fine, so shrewdly threaded. It is already beautiful in necessity and sufficiency of wire, connection, possibility.
I'm not a ball in a pinball machine. I know what I want.
[He] had invented a pinball machine. When we saw it, we said, George! This is not a pinball machine alone. This is the poem of a pinball machine, the essence made delicately concrete, and so forth.”.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
[Computer] programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.
in Britain they call a pinball machine a pin table