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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. In Greek and Roman drama, a god lowered by stage machinery to resolve a plot or extricate the protagonist from a difficult situation.
- n. An unexpected, artificial, or improbable character, device, or event introduced suddenly in a work of fiction or drama to resolve a situation or untangle a plot.
- n. A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.
Wiktionary
- n. Any resolution to a story that does not pay due regard to the story's internal logic and that is so unlikely that it challenges suspension of disbelief, and presumably allows the author, director, or developer to end the story in the way that he or she desired
- n. A contrived solution to a problem, relying on an agent external to the situation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any active agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an insoluble difficulty
Etymologies
- New Latin deus ex māchinā : Latin deus, god + Latin ex, from + Latin māchinā, ablative of māchina, machine (translation of Greek theos apo mēkhanēs).
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘deus ex machina’.
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Latin
tempus fugit, ad absurdum, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, deus ex machina, in absentia, in loco parentis, in vino veritas, ipso facto, mea culpa, memento mori and 8 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
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forms/acts: art
threnody, eisegesis, imbricate, screed, lapis, requiem, colophon, homunculus, deus ex machina, apophthegm, anastrophe, anaphora and 9 more...
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Machines
I will also accept mechanisms, machine elements, contrivances, and engines.
machine, machines, Machine, Machines, Rage Against the ..., machine quilting, simple machine, Turing machine, turing machine, machine element, the heart-attack ..., ghost in the machine and 33 more...
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Latin
exempli gratia, deus ex machina, prolix, sisyphean, minatory, empyrean, cicatrix, demulcent, effulgence, emulsion, garum, ablative and 12 more...
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vijaimanikandan's list
Vocabulary
mass murder, superhero, bubbly, narcotics, murder, supple, neolithic, howard hughes, deus ex machina, island, mystery, suspense and 29 more...
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WANTED
movie menagerie, stalking pictures, in the canimals, film animalation, frankly my deer, citizen mane, guess who's going..., silverback screen, cinematogiraffe, herd lines, tail tales, plains talk and 69 more...
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ancient signs
ouroboros, calypso, la sirene, Medusa, chthonic, aureole, colophon, succubus, peri, homunculus, zephyr, numinous and 7 more...

quotato When World War Two ended with Atomic Bombs, those Atomic Bombs were the ultimate Deus ex machina... Jun 21, 2009
ofravens as per dictionary.com: "an agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty." fabulous. Apr 8, 2008
reesetee Good grief, sionnach--how could you have forgotten that it was chained_bear? No one's as weird--er...as creative--at such lists. Mar 11, 2008
sionnach Once again with the lemur-libelling. What is *wrong* with you people?
OK, I probably should link to the relevant discussion so that people can understand this comment, but I've forgotten who had the 'this is not a Christmas word' list. No, wait - here it is! Mar 11, 2008
lindaness As in the trick Scott Adams' employs of having some improbable solution arrive at the end of the Drunken Lemurs Strike Back story:
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2008/02/drunken-lemurs.html Mar 10, 2008