Definitions for automata

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automata au·tom·a·ta

Spelling: [aw-tom-uh-tuh]

IPA: /ɔˈtɒm ə tə/

Automata is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 88 anagrams from letters in automata (aaamottu).

Definitions for automata

noun

1. a plural of automaton.
2. a mechanical figure or contrivance constructed to act as if by its own motive power; robot.
3. a person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner, without active intelligence.
4. something capable of acting automatically or without an external motive force.

Origin of automata

1605-15; Latin: automatic device Greek, noun use of neuter of autómatos spontaneous, acting without human agency, equivalent to auto- auto-¹ + -matos, adj.

Examples for automata

It was simultaneous on the part of all, and resembled that of automata, moved by machinery.

Vaucanson, however, did not confine himself merely to the making of automata.

Slaves, puppets, automata who were content to masquerade in the guise of men!

But in the case of man, what automata, indeed, have we not here!

That machines or automata could invent, is a thing not easily explicable.

It is probable that he made the automata which I saw in Russia.

You think, too, then, that were all in such a rut; living Chinese lives; automata?

Stiff-legged, like automata themselves, the two men stepped to the top of the line.

And one would like to know what our conviction that we are not automata has to do with it.

There they stood, automata, representatives of the society which streamed past them.