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automata

[aw-tom-uh-tuh]

noun

  1. a plural of automaton.



automata

/ ɔːˈtɒmətə /

noun

  1. a plural of automaton

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Campione has become known for her unique specialism in dolls, doll houses, automata, birdcages and corkscrews.

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There, in the Morris Museum’s collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata, is a music box from around 1877.

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Perhaps the message was hinting at the aliens’ appearance, morse code, cellular automata or the genetic secrets of E.T.

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Applying pen to paper, the mathematicians constructed the concept of cellular automata, dynamical entities made up of shaded or unshaded cells skipping across a two-dimensional grid.

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Image: Public Domain Before they were surrogates for class fear, though, automata in Europe were spectacles.

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