Software engine
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Short description: Core component of a complex software system
A software engine is a core component of a complex software system. The word "engine" is a metaphor of a car's engine. Thus a software engine is a complex subsystem.
There is no formal guideline for what should be called an engine, but the term has become widespread in the software industry.[1][2][3]
Notable examples
- Antivirus engine[4]
- Chess engine
- Correlation engine[1]
- Database engine
- Graphics engine[1]
- Layout engine[5]
- Physics engine
- Polymorphic engine
- Reasoning engine
- Recommendation engine[1]
- Regular expression engine
- Search engine
- Workflow engine
Multi-engine systems
- Mainstream web browsers have both a rendering engine and a JavaScript engine.
- Video games are often based on a game engine. Some of these also have specialized physics or graphics engines.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "10 Types of Software Engines That You Should Know About". https://www.spiceworks.com/tech/devops/articles/what-is-software-engine/. "In different contexts, software engines can mean different things."
- ↑ "Engine" (in en-US). https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24155/engine.
- ↑ "Definition of engine". https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/engine.
- ↑ "How it works". https://docs.virustotal.com/docs/how-it-works.
- ↑ "layout-engine · GitHub Topics". https://github.com/topics/layout-engine.
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