Definitions for automaton

automaton au·tom·a·ton

Spelling: [aw-tom-uh-ton, -tn]
IPA: /ɔˈtɒm əˌtɒn, -tn/

Automaton is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 189 anagrams from letters in automaton (aamnoottu).

Definitions for automaton

noun

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

Origin of automaton

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 automaton

You take orders like an automaton, and you go execute them like an automaton.

I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night.

Despite how he might come across in the history books, he wasn't some bland, rule-following "high-integrity" automaton.

Like an automaton he turned again and paced to the hall door.

The blind effort which he made to catch it overbalanced the automaton.

But it did suggest that Rubio was more than a Reaganite automaton.

As to the automaton, Mrs. Beaufort, Robert made sure of her discretion.

Had he learnt these complimentary bows from an automaton, or a dog?

Like an automaton the man stepped forward, and after him paced the white horse.

“It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.

You take orders like an automaton, and you go execute them like an automaton.

I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night.

Despite how he might come across in the history books, he wasn't some bland, rule-following "high-integrity" automaton.

Like an automaton he turned again and paced to the hall door.

The blind effort which he made to catch it overbalanced the automaton.

But it did suggest that Rubio was more than a Reaganite automaton.

As to the automaton, Mrs. Beaufort, Robert made sure of her discretion.

Had he learnt these complimentary bows from an automaton, or a dog?

Like an automaton the man stepped forward, and after him paced the white horse.

“It was no brute whom Smiley was pursuing with such mastery, no unqualified fanatic after all, no automaton,” le Carré writes.

Word Value for automaton
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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