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Definition: A restricted Turing machine where the tape acts as a pushdown store (or stack, where only the latest element can be read), with an extra one-way read-only input tape.
Also known as PDA.
See also deterministic pushdown automaton.
Note: From Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook, page 24-19, Copyright © 1999 by CRC Press LLC. Appearing in the Dictionary of Computer Science, Engineering and Technology, Copyright © 2000 CRC Press LLC.
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