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Terms vs Submachine - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and submachine

is that terms is while submachine is (computer science) a part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right.

As an adjective submachine is

of or pertaining to a submachine gun.

terms

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Noun

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    submachine

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computer science) A part of a real or virtual machine which acts as a machine in its own right
  • *{{quote-book, 1999, Martin Beran, chapter=Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computers, SOFSEM '99: Theory and Practice of Informatics citation
    • , passage=In the same computation, the computer may be decomposed repeatedly and the partitioning may vary from one split to the other. The submachines can further recursively decompose

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from submachine gun

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to a submachine gun
  • *{{quote-book, 2003, Milt Bearden & James Risen, The Main Enemy citation
    • , passage=The body of one of the dead crewmen bounced and rolled a little as the submachine rounds ripped into it.}}