Did you perhaps mean one of these? machining, machinist
Definitions
Etymologies
- Blend of machine and cinema (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Newest 'machinima' is all about 'Halo 3' - USATODAY. com”
“« Cameo roles in machinima advertising = viral potential |”
“EirePreneur: Cameo roles in machinima advertising = viral potential”
“Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Cameo roles in machinima advertising = viral potential:”
“| Cameo roles in machinima advertising = viral potential »”
“Cameo roles in machinima advertising = viral potential”
“And there are people that say machinima is not art ….”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Amazing Machinima music video
“The age of instant PR from screen shots and machinima is rapidly ending and we will be asked more emphatically to "show me the learning!”
“There's some damned fine storytelling and editing/production work here -- machinima is still finding its legs, discovering what it's for, and the Strange Company folks are at the forefront of using the medium for feature-length drama, really getting beyond short comedy pieces.”
“Most regular readers of GameSetWatch more than likely knows what the word machinima means, but for those who do not, its basically a blanket term for filmmaking that's directly related to video games.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘machinima’.
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Mundane Transformers
Bore that meets the eye.
potamogeton, testator, scrutator, isolator, confiteor, deflator, qwerty, susceptor, champertor, preemptor, disinfector, infractor and 91 more...
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longer new words in Scrabble
these were collected recently
mostly from Chambers and some
from Collins dictionaries.acathisia, acathisias, acentrics, aciclovir, aciclovirs, acidically, acinetobacter, acinetobacters, acrophobics, aculeates, advertizings, aerodigestive and 1320 more...
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delcj's Words
gavotte, perverse, tchotchkes, schmoop, divisural, triplicostate, albatross, snuggery, virgule, separatrix, solidus, tetrodotoxin and 116 more...
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The Spectacle
DISTRACT, STARE, CONSUME
(repeat)gongoozler, television, sporting events, blockbuster, alienation, situationist, technocapitalism, media extravaganza, sex scandal, hypnotic behavior, fantastic visions, prime time and 164 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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Phrases and words I didn't know
give up the ghost, ninja'd, coal-hole, hotting up, chancer, clave, salaryman, turf accountant, cremains, autoclave, hummingbird mind, gank and 174 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 1999 more...
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A Gamer's Life
ludology, katamari, tengen, atari, machinima, pixelante, odama, pwn, frag, wiitard, joystick, d-pad and 9 more...
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michaelnewman's Words
shenanigans, affordances, machinima, bedraggled, fancy-pants, meme, felliniesque, planimetric, macerate, whip pan, videoblog, deposition and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for machinima.

john “Video-game aficionados have been creating “machinima�? -- an ungainly term mixing “machine�? and “cinema�? and pronounced ma-SHEEN-i-ma -- since the late 90's. “Red vs. Blue�? is the first to break out of the underground, and now corporations like Volvo are hiring machinima artists to make short promotional films, while MTV, Spike TV and the Independent Film Channel are running comedy shorts and music videos produced inside games.�?
The New York Times, The Xbox Auteurs, by Clive Thompson, August 7, 2005 Feb 17, 2009