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Definition of Automata
1. automaton [n] - See also: automaton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Automata
Literary usage of Automata
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe (1856)
"Brewster, in his Natural Magic, has given a very full account of the most remarkable
automata, from which this article is principally taken. ..."
2. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics: Also, Lives of Distinguished by Henry Howe, New York Museum of Science and Industry Library (1852)
"Brewster, in his Natural Magic, has given a very full account of the most remarkable
automata, from which this article is principally taken. ..."
3. Peter Parley's Annual. by William Martin (1869)
"automata, OR MECHANICAL TOYS. T automata I wish you to understand those things
that are made by mechanical contrivance to represent life. ..."
4. Letters on Natural Magic by David Brewster, James Alexander Smith (1883)
"WE have already seen that the ancients had attained some degree of perfection in
the construction of automata or pieces of mechanism which imitated the ..."
5. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"JUGGLERS, ROPE-DANCERS, automata, ETC. UNDER this title I comprehend not only
those properly called jugglers, who, for the sake of money, ..."
6. The Little Girl's Own Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child, Eliza Leslie (1847)
"Automatons is not a proper word, Ann. When we speak of one image of this kind,
we say automaton ; when we speak of more than one, we say automata—because ..."
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