automaton

名词 n.
中文释义
发音 ô-tŏm'ə-tən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
    — He has spent many years on the automaton, and it must have cost thousands of pounds in experiment and construction.
  2. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
    — Due to her strict adherence to her daily schedule, Jessica was becoming more and more convinced that she was an automaton.
  3. A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
  4. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
  5. The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination. dated

词形变化

automatons plural automata plural

词汇关系

下位词
robot
衍生词
automatonlike automatonophobia auton biautomaton Büchi automaton cellular automaton finite automaton finite-state automaton Obamaton pushdown automaton semiautomaton teleautomaton
相关词
automat automatic automation automatization automatize

词源

From Ancient Greek αὐτόματον (autómaton), neuter of αὐτόματος (autómatos, “self moving, self willed”). Doublet of automat.
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