Sentence examples for hypothetical device from inspiring English sources

And then in 1936, Alan Turing developed his Turing machine, a hypothetical device that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules.

This hypothetical device can be used for grasping hold of pieces of cargo, small spaceships and even asteroids without actually touching them.

Doomsday machine, hypothetical device that would automatically trigger the nuclear destruction of an aggressor country or the extinction of all life on Earth in the event of a nuclear attack on the country maintaining the device.

The project was named after a hypothetical device mentioned in an article from 1945 and combines the words memory and index.

It was a perfect match, because tailoring the hypothetical device for an environmental pathogen would simply be a matter of using a genetic sequence from the pathogen.

The technique could one day serve to shuttle information around a quantum computer--a hypothetical device that would drastically speed up calculations by exploiting the ability of quantum systems to be in many states at the same time.

Perhaps our expectations towards such a test are too high however, as they often tend to be towards other hypothetical devices as well, such as the Rawlsian veil of ignorance or hypothetical social contracts.

In his momentous paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" (submitted on 28 May 1936 and delivered 12 November), Turing reformulated Kurt Gödel's 1931 results on the limits of proof and computation, replacing Gödel's universal arithmetic-based formal language with the formal and simple hypothetical devices that became known as Turing machines.

The work of Turing showed how such formal derivations could be executed mechanically by a Turing machine, a hypothetical computing device that operates by moving forward and backward on an indefinitely long tape and scanning cells on which it prints and erases symbols in some finite alphabet.

We use the hypothetical deliberative device of the contract to "test" our social institutions.

He describes a hypothetical insurance device which, on the one hand, neutralizes "the effects of differential talents" (Dworkin 2000, 91) and, on the other hand, is insensitive to the different ambitions people have in their lives (Kymlicka 2002, 75 79).