"nondeterministic Turing machine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: nondeterministic Turing machines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|head=nondeterministic Turing machine}} nondeterministic Turing machine (plural nondeterministic Turing machines)
  1. (computer science) A variant of a Turing machine whose governing rules may specify more than one possible action for any given combination of the state of the machine and symbol being read. Coordinate_terms: deterministic Turing machine Translations (nondeterministic Turing machine): недетерминирана машина на Тюринг (nedeterminirana mašina na Tjuring) [feminine] (Bulgarian), niedeterministyczna maszyna Turinga [feminine] (Polish)

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