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Definition of Automat
1. Noun. A vending machine from which you can get food.
2. Noun. A cafeteria where food is served from machines.
Definition of Automat
1. Noun. A vending machine for food. ¹
2. Noun. A cafeteria consisting of vending machines. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Automat
1. a type of cafeteria [n -S] - See also: cafeteria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Automat
Literary usage of Automat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edison Monthly by New York Edison Company (1919)
"Autos for the automat NOT many New Yorkers who dine "automat"ically ...
Therefore when the automat moved to New York in 1912 a vehicle of 1000 pounds ..."
2. Electric Railway Troubles and how to Find Them: A Comprehensive Treatise on by Paul Emilius Lowe (1909)
"... which in belted machines is automat/ca/7y produced by the belt, is imparted
to the armature shaft by the Allis-Chalmers oscillator. Fig. 114. ..."
3. Live Articles on Special Hazards: A Series of Articles Reprinted from the (1914)
"The automat bears the same relation to the embroidery machine as the auto piano
player to the piano; the pattern or design being punched into the paper ..."
4. The Charm of Scandinavia by Francis Edward Clark, Sydney Clark (1914)
"But when it comes time for frokost (breakfast), or middag (dinner), then the
automat is very much in evidence. It seems at first to the traveler that the ..."
5. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"The most important of these is the automat attachment to the embroidery machine.
... The automat greatly reduces the amount of skilled labor necessary, ..."
6. Medical lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1866)
"automat'IC, automat'ieta, Autom'atm, (F.) automatique, ... automatic which are
executed without volition :— involuntary motions, mo'tut automat'id Beu ..."
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