Plural of automaton
regular plural
The plural of automaton is automatons or automata.
Forms of automaton
| Singular | automaton /ɔːˈtɒmətən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | automatons /ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tənz/ automata /ɔːˈtɒm.ə.tə/ |
| Countable | countable |
Automatons and automata in a sentence
- Well, now she did, watching her own hands busying up and down the keyboard as if they were astonishing automata that she had wound up and set in motion, in perfect synchrony, to produce this silvery flow of sound.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 9, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN
- You'll be joining the war against the Scourge, an alien race of soulless, ruthless automatons.”2024 August 12, Joe Saunders, “The Battle of Zab 9” (1:00 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 9, spoken by Screaming…. From the entry planetfall
- "As another example, machines are epic, but automatons belong to romance.1976, James Nohrnberg, The Analogy of The Faerie Queene, Princeton University Press, page 23. From the entry daedalia
- But this is not achieved through the inhuman slavery to logic which defines automatons and whose absence distinguish man.2013, Michael David Levenstein, The End of Knowledge: A Discourse on the Unification of Philosophy, New York, N.Y.: Algora Publishing…. From the entry entelechially
- We prove that pre-injective, post-surjective cellular automata over surjunctive groups are reversible.2015, Silvio Capobianco, Jarkko Kari, Siamak Taati, “Post-surjectivity and balancedness of cellular automata over groups”, in arXiv. From the entry surjunctive group
Meaning of automaton
- noun A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- noun A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
- noun A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
Questions about the plural of automaton
- What is the plural of automaton?
- The plural of automaton is automatons or automata.
- Which is correct, automatons or automata?
- Both are used. automata is the more common of the two in English writing.
- Is automaton countable?
- Automaton is a countable noun.
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