AUTOMATON


Meaning of AUTOMATON in English

vi any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.

2. automaton ·vi a self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself;

— applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, ·etc.

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