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automaton Definition

au·toma·ton (ô täm′ə tän′, -tən)

noun pl. -·tons′ or -·ta-tə

  1. anything that can move or act of itself
  2. an apparatus that automatically performs certain actions by responding to preset controls or encoded instructions
  3. an electronic machine, control device, etc. equipped with a computer and designed to operate automatically in response to instructions previously fed into the computer
  4. a person or animal acting in an automatic or mechanical way

Etymology: L < Gr, neut. of automatos: see automatic

automaton Synonyms

automaton

n.

robot, humanoid, android; see robot 1.

automaton Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • become: And I'm certainly not saying that we should become teaching automatons.
  • design: One such entirely abortive scheme involved designing an automaton ' to play a game of purely intellectual skill successfully ' .
  • make: She has begun to develop these in ceramics in her efforts to make the automatons last longer in curious hands!
  • use: First, the rewrite rules are transformed into so-called minimal rewrite rules, using the pattern-match automaton of Hoffmann and O'Donnell.
  • call: This three methods operate on a array called automaton.
  • simulate: The best way is to build and simulate an automaton for the pattern.

Converse of subject

  • recognize: The set of words recognized by an automaton is called the language of the automaton.

Adjective modifier

  • deterministic: A deterministic automaton has only one next state for a specific input symbol.
  • cellular: In Rule 110 we can find each one of the elements to identify a cellular automaton of von Neumann type.
  • finite: The maximum number of states that the finite automaton requires is set by default to 500.
  • mindless: They're just mindless automatons who never change or react?
  • mere: It would not be a whole, separate human being but a mere soulless automaton.
  • one-dimensional: They demonstrate how to design a one-dimensional cellular automaton that supports infinite families of signals of different speeds.

Modifies a noun

  • model: The model developed in this project is a dynamic stochastic spatially non-uniform cellular automaton model, which simulates the propagation of lava tubes.
  • chain: Siwak's chapter gives us striking examples of phenomenology of particles in parallel and serial automaton chains.

Noun used with modifier

  • state: This contrasts with ACT in the sense that learning in a neural state automaton does not demand the physical changes associated with lifetime evolution.
  • chess: Moralists found the story of the chess automaton irresistible.
  • consumer: Consumer culture turns many otherwise intelligent people into consumer automatons.

Preposition: with

  • state: Rule 110 is a cellular automaton with two states in its alphabet and which evolves in one dimension.