Found 3 items, similar to Automaton.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: automaton
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: automaton
automaton
n 1: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic
way;
“only an automaton wouldn't have noticed” [syn:
zombi,
zombie]
2: a mechanism that can move automatically [syn:
robot,
golem]
[also:
automata (pl)]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Automaton
Automaton
\Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L.
Automata, E.
Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self +
a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See
Mean, v. i.]
1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of
spontaneous motion or action. --Huxley.
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So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
--Boyle.
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These living automata, human bodies. --Boyle.
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2. 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.
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