automaton

英 [ɔːˈtɒmətən]

美 [ɔːˈtɑːmətən]

n.  不动脑筋机械行事的人; 自动操作装置; 小机器人

复数：automatons　

计算机

BNC.21454 / COCA.23971

牛津词典

noun

• 不动脑筋机械行事的人
  a person who behaves like a machine, without thinking or feeling anything
• 自动操作装置；小机器人
  a machine that moves without human control; a small robot

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （因为疲惫、厌烦等）动作机械的人
  If you say that someone is anautomaton, you are critical of them because they behave as if they are so tired or bored that they do things without thinking.
  1. I get sick of being thought of as a political automaton.
     我讨厌被看作政治机器。
• 小机器人
  Anautomatonis a small, mechanical figure that can move automatically.

英英释义

noun

• a mechanism that can move automatically
  Synonym:robotgolem
• someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way
  1. only an automaton wouldn't have noticed
  Synonym:zombizombie

双语例句

• All hail the the Automaton!
  都来为这种“机器人”欢呼吧！
• Study on a cellular automaton model of the date transmission network
  一种数据传输网络元胞自动机模型的研究
• One-dimension slow-to-start multi-cellular automaton model of the bus running in the on-line stop is presented.
  构建了适用于在线公交车站车辆运行的一维慢启动多元胞自动机仿真模型。
• A Fast String Matching Algorithm Based on Finite Automaton
  一种基于有限自动机的快速串匹配算法
• RNGzip uses a Relax NG schema validator to build a deterministic tree automaton from the specified schema.
  RNGzip使用RelaxNG模式验证程序从指定的模式构建确定性树自动机。
• Given this automaton, a receiver can reconstruct an entire XML document by transmitting very little information.
  有了这种自动机，接收方可以通过传输少量信息，重建整个XML文档。
• Cellular automaton: simplest model of a spatially distributed process that can be used to stimulate various real-world processes.
  细胞自动机：空间分布进程的最简单模型，可用来激起各种不同的真实世界进程。
• As discussed last month, I plan to use Deterministic Finite Automaton ( DFA) to compile the proxy.
  如上个月所讨论的，我计划用确定性有限自动机（DeterministicFiniteAutomaton，DFA）来编译该代理。
• An automaton which has no input or has a constant input content.
  没有输入或输入内容不变的自动机。
• Interrupt S-shaped searching strategy was put forward, as well as a vision localization approach based on finite automaton.
  提出了中断式S形搜索策略的概念，设计了基于有限自动机的视觉定位方法；