- plural of automaton.
automata
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2024
There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2024
There are numerous examples of such religious automata from the late medieval era onwards, including life-size sculptures of Christ and the Virgin Mary that were equipped with articulated limbs and animated by puppetry or clockwork.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
That is, you cannot predict in advance what the cellular automata are going to do, you can only watch and see what happens.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2021
Hugo continued flipping through the book, seeing if there was anything at all about automata, but the book was silent on the subject.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
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