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How to use automaton in a sentence

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The external world appeared to be an automaton, a clockwork mechanism that had been regulated once and for all.
It makes you an unthinking automaton, who will rapidly be shunned by society for your heartless or underwhelming response to everything.
This clanking robotic automaton is about a meter tall and capable of putting the frighteners on any household pet.
Mathematician Alan M. Turing was one of the first to propose the idea of a finite automaton as a universal mathematics machine.
By no means, though, should you assume that he simply churns out tales like an automaton working from a template.
Originally, the challenge was to design an automaton that could walk unassisted.
But for one man at least, the role of cheerless automaton seems to be palling.
The camera pans right to left, over the mechanical cymbals, et cetera, on to the automaton playing the drums.
In the late 1700s, a performer-cum-scientist in the court of Maria Theresa displayed a wooden automaton seated at a gear-filled cabinet.
You don't get relativity by designing a cellular automaton to model Newtonian collisions.
He spoke in the tone one might fancy a speaking automaton to enounce its single words.
The man famed for his wraparound sunglasses and steely determination was becoming a golfing automaton.
In computer science, an automaton is an abstract machine that can serve as a model of computation.
The team also devised a new rule for the low-resolution automaton that would lead to the same long-term behavior as the original automaton if it were fuzzed at the end.
Madeleine lived the rest of her life an automaton in the confines of an insane asylum.
Studs and chaplets of different dimensions turned on cutting off lathes and for large automaton series.
The watch movement strikes the hours, quarters and minutes on request and is completely disconnected from the automaton movement.
These centres of energy and lines of force run the automaton, the physical body.
Virtual Universe is a 3D world simulator dedicated to automaton and robotics.
It can easily be shown that this new form of the grammar is equivalent to a finite automaton.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Like an automaton the man stepped forward, and after him paced the white horse.
I was an automaton turning a crank in the frozen stillness of the long, long night.
You take orders like an automaton, and you go execute them like an automaton.
So all that Italian crew looked on and marvelled at the infant phenomenon that downed wine with the sang-froid of an automaton.
No one was expected to be a mere automaton, useful but replaceable.
He dressed himself like an automaton, and breakfasted like an anchorite.
Had he learnt these complimentary bows from an automaton, or a dog?
The blind effort which he made to catch it overbalanced the automaton.
It was the live Zelda he wanted to see, not the tapping automaton.
Like an automaton he turned again and paced to the hall door.
Mr Verloc obeyed woodenly, stony-eyed, and like an automaton whose face had been painted red.
He treated her with the strictest politeness, but with the precision of an automaton, the movements of which had been arranged for this purpose.
He was like a soldierly automaton, or rather, like a magnificent marionette.
Padre Monti obeyed with the unquestioning promptness of an automaton.
As to the automaton, Mrs. Beaufort, Robert made sure of her discretion.
Yet, as previously hinted, this omnitooled, open-and-shut carpenter, was, after all, no mere machine of an automaton.
Then Jurgis felt his companion pulling, and he stepped in, and the blue automaton closed the door.
At times his mind wandered farther afield, and he plodded on, a mere automaton, strange conceits and whimsicalities gnawing at his brain like worms.
An unrestricted belief in this type of causality leads necessarily to the idea that the world is an automaton of which we ourselves are only little cogwheels.
He was a cinder, a bit of a clinker of a man, a little animated clinker, not yet quite cold, that moved stiffly and by starts and jerks like an automaton.
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