Definition of Automatons

1. Noun. (plural of automaton) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Automatons

1. automaton [n] - See also: automaton

Lexicographical Neighbors of Automatons

automatised
automatism
automatisms
automatist
automatistic
automatists
automatization
automatizations
automatize
automatized
automatizes
automatizing
automatograph
automaton
automatonlike
automatons (current term)
automatous
automats
automen
automerization
automerizations
automethylate
automethylates
automictic
automimicries
automimicry
automize
automnesia
automobile

Literary usage of Automatons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy by Jacques Ozanam, Jean Etienne Montucla (1814)
"Some machines of this kind are mentioned in ancient history, in terms of the utmost admiration. Such were the tripod automatons of Vulcan; and the dove of ..."

2. Modern Industrial Progress by Charles Henry Cochrane (1904)
"... M The Droz automatons. Away back in the eighteenth century there-was a craze fi* puppets or marionettes, and Jacquet Droz and his son of the same name ..."

3. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1853)
"He was buried in the Greyfriars' churchyard; but no stone points out to the stranger where the Scottish minstrel sleeps. or pasteboard automatons in a raree ..."

4. Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines edited by Enos Bronson (1812)
"automatons.—Three automatons are now exhibiting at Paris: the first writes the names of persons; the second copies drawings ; and the third, ..."

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