Automaton

Word AUTOMATON
Character 9
Hyphenation au tom a ton
Pronunciations /ɔːˈtɒmətən/

Definitions and meanings of "Automaton"

What do we mean by automaton?

A self-operating machine or mechanism, especially a robot. noun

One that behaves or responds in a mechanical way. noun

That which is self-moving, or has the power of spontaneous movement, but is not conscious. noun

Specifically A self-acting machine, or one which is actuated in such a manner as to carry on for some time certain movements without the aid of external impulse. noun

A living being acting mechanically or as a mere machine, especially without consciousness; a person or an animal whose actions are purely involuntary or mechanical. noun

A person who acts in a monotonous routine manner, without active intelligence, especially without being fully aware of what he is doing. noun

Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. noun

A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc. noun

A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions. noun

A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion. noun

A formal system, such as finite automaton. noun

A toy in the form of a mechanical figure. noun

Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way noun

A mechanism that can move automatically 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 finite automaton.

A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.

The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

A tool; a sheep; one who blindly follows trends and majority rule on account of being too stupid and/or insecure to think for themselves and express their own views. Urban Dictionary

Musical genius and massive bumface...makes weird glitchy sounds come out of computers and makes trumpy sounds with his mouth...the greatest lover in the world...bribe him with chicken, rum or old skatewear. Urban Dictionary

A person who follows instructions blindly and to the letter never exercising judgement or common sense. This is most commonly seen in bouncers, security guards and door men. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Automaton

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The word "automaton" in example sentences

The automaton is all that is left of his previous life. ❋ ____Maggie (2008)

The automaton is one of many built to help Lincoln hit the campaign trail and who subsequently became the sheriff of a small town. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This year’s homework question was to find an interesting cellular automaton from the rule space of radius 3/2 with two colors. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He became a visitor to the "Man with the Rolling Eye," though I believe he used to call my automaton "The Sheik of Baalbec." ❋ Richard Washburn Child (1908)

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 ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

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. ❋ David Sexton (2011)

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 ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Mark Kermode (2010)

Suddenly, Hillary was no longer the "automaton" with wonkish talk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Finally there he returns, trying to imitate in his walk the inflexible stiffness of some kind of automaton while carrying his tray with a recklessness of a tight-rope walker by putting it in a perpetually unstable, perpetually broken equilibrium which he perpetually re-establishes by a light movement of the arm and hand. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The idea behind it is nifty -- basically, it's "artificial artificial intelligence," or a project that seeks to gather data that simply cannot be automated and is thus named after the famous chess playing "automaton" written about in Tom Standage's excellent book. ❋ Yendi (2006)

JANICE ROGERS BROWN, CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT: A judge is not some kind of automaton, or computer. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I bought an "automaton" once in April, and I did have a time with it! ❋ Unknown (1893)

April, especially if it is an "automaton" one -- the umbrella, I mean, not the April. ❋ Unknown (1893)

"What's an 'automaton'?" said I. "Oh, it's a beautiful arrangement," replied the man, with a touch of enthusiasm. ❋ Unknown (1893)

All through it seemed to Tressady that the person sitting in his chair and talking politics was a kind of automaton, with which the real George ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

The economists had constructed a kind of automaton which fairly represented the actual working of the machinery. ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)

Yet he hates that old "automaton" tag - he's warmer than that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chris actually had no problem at all with classic literature, but because he was a complete [milquetoast] automaton, he laughed along anyway with his [Sigma Chi] brothers at the guy reading [Candide] at the neighboring table in the library. ❋ Rob-a-dob (2007)

[i wish] i could [make] [beats] like automaton ❋ Floppyv (2009)

Mark: That damn Mindless Automaton just took my [Crisps] and [Iron Bru] Simon: You wanna say that to his face? Mark: I would, but he'd probably think it was a [complement] ❋ Seo01 (2006)

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