1) Android 2) Anomaly 3) Machine 4) Metal worker 5) Not the creative sort 6) Robot 7) Unthinking worker 8) Unusual person 9) Zombi 10) Zombie
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1) Android 2) Aroid 3) Golem 4) Humanoid 5) Robot 6) Zombie
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one mechanically going through the motions but without feeling or emotion
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An automaton (plural: automata or automatons) is a self-operating machine. ==Etymology== The word `automation` is the latinization of the Greek αὐτόματον, automaton, (neuter) `acting of one`s own will`. This word was first used by Homer to describe automatic door opening, or automatic movement of wheeled tripods. It is more often us...
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• (v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. • (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
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any of various mechanical objects that are relatively self-operating after they have been set in motion. The term automaton is also applied to a ... [1 related articles]
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self-acting artificial system, whose behaviour is governed either in a stepwise manner by given decision rules or continuously by defined relations, and whose output variables are created from its input and state variables NOTE 1 - An essential characteristic of a program controlled automaton is the existence of at least one branching in the progra...
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Origin: L. Fr. Gr, neut. Of self-moving; self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. To strive. See Mean, v. I. ... 1. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. 'So great and admirable an automaton as the world.' (Boyle) 'These living automata, human bodies.' (Boyle) ... 2. A self-moving machine, or one which...
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Au·tom'a·ton noun ;
plural Latin
Automata English
Automatons [ Latin from Greek ..., neut. of ... self-moving; ... self + a root
ma ,
man , to strive, think, confer ... to strive. See
Mean ,
intransitive verb ]
1. Any thing ...
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n] - someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way 2. [n] - a mechanism that can move automatically
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automaton (s), automata (pl) 1. A self-operating machine or mechanism, especially a robot. 2. A mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power. 3. Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; 'only an automaton wouldn't have noticed'. Also, zombi, zombie. 4. A person or animal that acts in...
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robot noun a mechanism that can move automatically
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Mechanical figure imitating human or animal performance. Automatons are usually designed for aesthetic appeal as opposed to purely functional robots. The writings of Ctesibius of Alexandria in the 3nd century BC show that in his time there was already a long tradition of building automata, such as model birds that sang or flapped their wings. A Chi...
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a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot. · a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence. · something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.
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[Auto words] a mechanism that can move independently of external control
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