Crossword clues for automata
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Automaton \Au*tom"a*ton\, n.; pl. L. Automata, E. Automatons. [L. fr. Gr. ?, neut. of ? self-moving; ? self + a root ma, man, to strive, think, cf. ? to strive. See Mean, v. i.]
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Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
--Huxley.So great and admirable an automaton as the world.
--Boyle.These living automata, human bodies.
--Boyle. 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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Automata is the plural form of automaton, a self-operating machine. It may also refer to:
- Automata (film), a 2014 science-fiction film
- "Automata", an 1819 short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Automata theory, the study of abstract machines
- Automata UK (1982–1985), a software house
- "Automata", a 2009 hardboiled science fiction crime series by Penny Arcade
- Cellular automata, a discrete model studied in computability theory, mathematics, physics, complexity science, theoretical biology, and microstructure modeling
Autómata is a 2014 Spanish-Bulgarian science fiction action film starring Antonio Banderas. The film is directed by Spanish director Gabe Ibáñez and co-written by Ibáñez with Igor Legarreta and Javier Sánchez Donate. Along with Banderas, the film stars Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster and Tim McInnerny.
Usage examples of "automata".
The expedition therefore had been equipped with special devices for communication as well as with automata that would be able, in the absence of preliminary negotiations through an exchange of signals, to demonstrate the peaceful nature of the expedition prior to landing.
War automata, possessing no instinct for self-preservation, designed for suicidal combat, would hardly be amenable to entering into any kind of negotiations with a cosmic intruder.
In the gigantic interior, steady, rapid work was done by yellow, blue, and black automata, their enameled surfaces gleaming.
At their control center, the physicists, after automata performed the preliminary examination, could not decide whether the damaged lander had been damaged by an accident or by design.
Some one, coming from the automata room, had gone along the hall past the closed door of the living room.
He stopped at the door of the automata room and found the knob pressed inward.
Others are automata with a limited routine, confined to a small area, but fully mobile, and can respond to humans in many languages.
Two automata, circa 1840, German, brothers, sat at facing desks heaped high with manuscripts, books, old shirts, astrolabes, maps, and ink-stands.
Stratton took up residence in London and secured a position as a nomenclator at Coade Manufactory, one of the leading makers of automata in England.
Chalky white shells bearing the inverted contours of various automata were stacked along the walls.
In the central portion of the room, apron-clad journeymen sculptors worked singly and in pairs, tending the cocoons from which automata were hatched.
Your intentions notwithstanding, these automata of yours would put sculptors out of work.
I believe these automata can help restore dignity to other professions, and without great cost to yours.
These automata are so far removed from being in a position to reproduce themselves without human participation that I scarcely know where to begin listing the objections.
So that you can best make use of your time, the Royal Society will provide support for your development of dexterous automata as needed: securing investors and so forth.