automaton
IPA: ɔtˈɑmʌtɑn
noun
- A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
- A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
- A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
- (dated) The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.
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Examples of "automaton" in Sentences
- The automaton is all that is left of his previous life.
- He became a visitor to the "Man with the Rolling Eye," though I believe he used to call my automaton "The Sheik of Baalbec."
- This year’s homework question was to find an interesting cellular automaton from the rule space of radius 3/2 with two colors.
- The automaton is one of many built to help Lincoln hit the campaign trail and who subsequently became the sheriff of a small town.
- Thus, according to Descartes, the animal body is an automaton, which is competent to perform all the animal functions in exactly the same way as
- Indeed Rivera manages to capture not just the feeling of intense activity in an automobile plant but the kind of automaton-like rhythm we associate with assembly-line production.
- Eventually, having struck up a friendship with Mr Méliès's cute and adventurous niece Isabelle, Hugo discovers that the old man is none other than the real life great pre-war film-maker Georges Méliès, fallen on hard times and turning his face against his own gift - and that the automaton is a special link to him.
- An encounter with an eccentric girl and the owner of small toy kiosk in the train station sets in motion a mysterious adventure involving a stolen key, a treasured notebook, and an enigmatic mechanical man or "automaton" – with the real-life figure of cinematic pioneer Georges Méliès providing the crucial link between inventive fantasy and historical fact.
- We look here only to the necessity of the connection of events in a time-series as it is developed according to the physical law, whether the subject in which this development takes place is called automaton materiale when the mechanical being is moved by matter, or with Leibnitz spirituale when it is impelled by ideas; and if the freedom of our will were no other than the latter
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