noun, feminine/ma.ʃin/plural: machines
machine, device; machine (combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use); engine; machine (a person who is very efficient); car
“la machine bureaucratique”
Synonyms: voiture, char
Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing".