"machine cycle" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the sequence of events that occur in a machine or process, such as the steps involved in a computer program or factory procedure. For example, "The machine cycle has been successful this week, with no major production problems."
And to those of you wedded to your chemical cleaners and "worn once" machine cycle, consider the following.
A net flux of rings occurs back from station 2, the system returns to its original equilibrium, and a machine cycle has taken place.
"The result is that the arguments are going around and around like a washing machine cycle," said one official familiar with the talks.
The limited number of instructions and addressing modes leads to a small control section and to a short machine cycle time.
The Bank of England has cooked them in ovens, drowned them in red wine, stuck them in the microwave and run them through a 90C washing machine cycle with Persil washing power.
Lowering the temperature on a washing machine cycle to cold water from 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) reduces energy consumption by at least half, according to the International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products, an industry group.
A motor power controller function would be called and then the ADC value would continuously be read at a rate of 13 cycles per conversion plus an additional 12 machine cycles of register manipulation and comparisons.
We found that, on average, the macro-coded SPUR implementation has a static code size 14 times larger than the PLM, executes 16 times more instructions, yet requires only 2.31 times the number of machine cycles.
Following this path, the code consumes 10 (=1 +1+1+6+1) machine cycles.
Therefore, the operation S is performed with three machine cycles.
We consider the average value consumed by the operation, i.e., 13 machine cycles.
