Engine

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Engine (disambiguation) .

With Engine (from the English for the "drive" or "motor"; German functional unit ) in which is information technology a separate part of a computer program referred to. An engine is responsible for complex calculations or simulations . Often an engine runs automatically in the background without being directly dependent on control by the user .

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An engine is usually designed for a specific task, according to which a distinction is made. Examples are:

• Game engine
• Graphics engine
• Physics engine
• Layout engine
• HTML rendering engine
• Template engine
• Business rule engine
• Business process engine
• Database engine (DBMS)

See also : front-end and back-end  and runtime environment