Associations to the word «Automaton»

Wiktionary

AUTOMATON, noun. A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
AUTOMATON, noun. A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
AUTOMATON, noun. A formal system, such as finite automaton.
AUTOMATON, noun. A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.

Dictionary definition

AUTOMATON, noun. Someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed".
AUTOMATON, noun. A mechanism that can move automatically.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope