automata

[ aw-tom-uh-tuh ]

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noun

automata

/ ɔːˈtɒmətə /

He constructed various machines and automata, among the most celebrated of which was his flying pigeon.

The worst of it is, these people live lives approaching automata.

Quar′ter-boys, automata which strike the quarter-hours in certain belfries.

They were unemotional automata, who knew nothing except to obey the orders of their terrible chief.

Descartes—a pupil of the Jesuits—only applied his theory to man, and regarded animals as soulless automata.

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