Mach n 1: Austrian physicist and philosopher who introduced the Mach number and who founded logical positivism (1838-1916) [syn: {Mach}, {Ernst Mach}]
Mach An operating system kernel under development at Carnegie-Mellon University to support distributed and parallel computation. Mach is designed to support computing environments consisting of networks of uniprocessors and multiprocessors. Mach is the kernel of the {OSF}/1.