automata

[ aw-tom-uh-tuh ]

/ ɔˈtɒm ə tə /

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noun

a plural of automaton.

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automagical, automagically, automaker, automanipulation, Automat, automata, automata theory, automate, automated clearing house, automated-teller machine, automatic

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How to use automata in a sentence

In 1966, the influential mathematician John Von Neumann discussed “self-reproducing automata.”
Will Self-Replicating Xenobots Cure Diseases, Yield New Bioweapons, or Simply Turn the World Into Grey Goo?|Simon Coghlan|December 10, 2021|Singularity Hub
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.
Ancient robots were objects of fantasy and fun|E. R. Truitt/MIT Press Reader|November 30, 2021|Popular-Science
He constructed various machines and automata, among the most celebrated of which was his flying pigeon.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2|Various
The worst of it is, these people live lives approaching automata.
Other Main-Travelled Roads|Hamlin Garland

Quar′ter-boys, automata which strike the quarter-hours in certain belfries.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
They were unemotional automata, who knew nothing except to obey the orders of their terrible chief.
Up the Forked River|Edward Sylvester Ellis
Descartes—a pupil of the Jesuits—only applied his theory to man, and regarded animals as soulless automata.
The Wonders of Life|Ernst Haeckel

British Dictionary definitions for automata

automata

/ (ɔːˈtɒmətə) /

noun

a plural of automaton

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