Usually means: Machine designed to follow instructions.
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  1. automaton: Merriam-Webster
  2. automaton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. automaton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. automaton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. automaton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Automaton, automaton: Wordnik
  7. automaton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. automaton: Wiktionary
  9. automaton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. automaton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. automaton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Automaton, automaton: Dictionary.com
  13. automaton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Automaton (Jamiroquai song), Automaton (album), Automaton (disambiguation), Automaton (song), Automaton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Automaton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. automaton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. automaton: Rhymezone
  18. Automaton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. automaton: FreeDictionary.org
  20. automaton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. automaton: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. automaton: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. automaton: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. automaton: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. automaton: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. automaton: CCI Computer
  3. automaton: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  4. automaton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. automaton: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Automaton: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. -automaton, automaton: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. automaton: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A machine or robot designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
noun:  A person who acts like a machine or robot, often defined as having a monotonous lifestyle and lacking in emotion.
noun:  A formal system, such as a finite-state machine or cellular automaton.
noun:  A toy in the form of a mechanical figure.
noun:  (dated) The self-acting power of the muscular and nervous systems, by which movement is effected without intelligent determination.

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