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automatons

UK/ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/US/ɔˈtɑ.mə.tənz/

automatons is the plural of automaton.

Meaning of automaton

Noun

automaton (plural automatons or automata)

  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.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC
  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. (dated) The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

Forms of automatons

alternative formautomata

Phrases with automatons

Questions about automatons

What is automatons the plural of?
Automatons is the plural of automaton.
How do you pronounce automatons?
Automatons is pronounced /ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/ (UK).

Words near automatons in the dictionary

  1. automatonlike
  2. automatonophobia
  3. automatonophobiac
  4. automatonophobiacs
  5. automatonophobias
  6. automatons
  7. automatophone
  8. automatophones
  9. automatous
  10. automats
  11. automechanism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: automatons (page history and authors); automaton (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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