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automata

[ aw-tom-uh-tuh ]

noun

  1. a plural of automaton.


automata

/ ɔːˈtɒmətə /

noun

  1. a plural of automaton
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

In 1966, the influential mathematician John Von Neumann discussed “self-reproducing automata.”

Buddhist legends focused on north-eastern India from the fourth and third centuries BCE recount the army of automata that guarded Buddha’s relics, built with knowledge smuggled from the Graecophone world.

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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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