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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne