Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
automaton .
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- noun Plural form of
automaton .
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Examples
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For a while, I thought I might find a way to represent an evolutionary process in automata-theoretic terms.
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An automata is a self-moving machine, and so is a computer.
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Great whitepaper explaining the visceral reaction we have to certain automata and movie monsters.
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Father of The Robots Born Today imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.
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Father of The Robots Born Today imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.
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… I discovered that Méliès had a collection of mechanical, wind-up figures called automata that were donated to a museum, but which were later destroyed and thrown away.
Brian Selznick « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog
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Father of 'Automata' Born This Day imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.
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Father of 'Automata' Born This Day imageJacques de Vaucanson Feb. 24, 1709 - Nov. 21, 1782 was the French inventor of 'automata' - robot devices of later significance for modern industry.
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Albin is a City University of New York economist who has built the ideas underlying Life—called automata theory—into a mathematics capable of dealing with the trickiest dimension in economics, that of complexity.
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Thank goodness for racehorses, fascinating clockwork driven costumed "automata" figures, an antique "wheel of fortune," Ms. Pacman and a pinball machine I designed for him with the names, locations and voices from the many television shows he produced.
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