automaton
automaton
Definition
au·toma·ton (ô täm′ə tän′, -tən)
noun pl. -·tons′ or -·ta-tə
- anything that can move or act of itself
- an apparatus that automatically performs certain actions by responding to preset controls or encoded instructions
- an electronic machine, control device, etc. equipped with a computer and designed to operate automatically in response to instructions previously fed into the computer
- a person or animal acting in an automatic or mechanical way
Etymology: L < Gr, neut. of automatos: see automatic
automaton
Synonyms
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.
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