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teaching machine
noun
- an automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers their response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.
teaching machine
noun
- a machine that presents information and questions to the user, registers the answers, and indicates whether these are correct or acceptable
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Word History and Origins
Origin of teaching machine1
First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences
His rudimentary successes would set off decades of research into teaching machines to recognize human faces.
It is now generally recognised that the old-fashioned method of teaching machine drawing is very unsatisfactory.
From Project Gutenberg
Yet to regard Miss Edgeworth as a mere teaching machine is to do her gross injustice.
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They were in nowise above the teaching-machine variety of school masters.
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