What's the difference between automatic and automaton?

Automatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Automatical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
  • (2) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (3) The automatic half of both the motor which advances the trepan as well as the second motor which rotates the trepan is triggered by the sudden change in electrical resistance between the trepan and the patient's internal body fluid, at the final stage of penetration.
  • (4) The time to make the decision and the total time are automatically recorded.
  • (5) A bouncy function has now been incorporated into a knee of the semi-automatic knee lock design in a pilot laboratory trial involving six patients.
  • (6) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (7) On the basis of these data, the computer, upon the basis of a program specially developed for this purpose, automatically calculates the corresponding amount of negative-points, which parallels the severity of the joint changes, i.e.
  • (8) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
  • (9) A method using selective saturation pulses and gated spin-echo MRI automatically corrects for this motion and thus eliminates misregistration artifact from regional function analysis.
  • (10) They were fitted with a gastric cannula through which 'milk' was infused automatically.
  • (11) Ventricular defibrillation was acheived in active conscious dogs with a chronically implanted automatic system composed of a defibrillator and an alternating current fibrillator.
  • (12) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
  • (13) This study was designed to determine the effects of hypoxia for shorter periods (1, 2, 3 and 6 weeks) on the neonatal heart as well as the chronotropic effects of [H+] on sino-atrial automaticity.
  • (14) From this, and previous studies indicating a dependency of contraction frequency on the inward verapamil-sensitive Na influx, it is suggested that the drugs modify the automaticity of this preparation by a primary influence on membrane Na exchange.
  • (15) Automatic analysis of oculopneumoplethysmography recordings might minimize the risks of misinterpretation and might improve the clinical significance of the Gee-oculopneumoplethysmography test.
  • (16) Global left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was obtained by radionuclide angiography and analyzed with an automatic detection program.
  • (17) 21 amino acids were determined by a liquid chromatograph, consisting of an automatic controller of the gradient, nonautomatic injector, fluorimetric detector and recording device.
  • (18) The algorithms involved are simple and a microprocessor-based automatic PCG analysis system using the proposed technique is being contemplated.
  • (19) Seventeen patients had type I complex partial seizures (CPS) with three consecutive phases: initial motionless staring, oral-alimentary automatisms, and reactive quasipurposeful movements during impaired consciousness.
  • (20) The case of a 32-year-old man who suffered a blow to his left supraorbital region and eyebrow in an automatic closing door is reported to draw attention to the uncommon but trivial nature of this injury which may result in profound visual loss.

Automaton


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
  • (v. i.) A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This leads to a notion of a "universal" hierarchically structured automaton mu which can move on a given graph in such a way as to emulate any automaton which moves on that graph in response to inputs.
  • (2) By scanning the automaton along nucleotide sequences, we can identify the positions of 5'-splice junctions with a degree of discrimination of up to 94-97% in the known genes, while the degree of prediction is in the range 50-55% in new genes.
  • (3) According to this model, the living cell is a self-moving, self-thinking and self-reproducing machine (automaton) that receives information and energy from its environment, processes them according to the genetic programs stored in DNA, and generates output signals to environment in order to realize teleonomically designed functions.
  • (4) Brownian algebra developed by Spencer-Brown (1969) is extensively used for the expression of cellular-automaton rules.
  • (5) With western newsfeeds depicting North Koreans as starving, brainwashed automatons, I sought to humanise and understand them.
  • (6) You are not supposed to demand your ticket as if you were dealing with an automaton.
  • (7) Preliminary experiments show the discriminative power of the cluster automaton concerning sexual differences and emotivity, as well as the extensive of a basic mechanism of clustering as a collective response to stress.
  • (8) Right now gamers feel as though they are being treated as copyright violators or automatons.
  • (9) When such an automaton is linked by its input and output to a deterministic process, it always stabilizes and it then has the property to rebuild itself.
  • (10) Increasing the number of organization levels in the automaton is shown to increase its efficiency in buffering external changes, and the mechanism of modulating the processing rules appears more efficient than the mechanism of controlling the mutation rate.
  • (11) The criterion used to maintain the correct movement direction lies on the distances from the automaton position to the side boundaries (lengths of the cockshafer antennae).
  • (12) The conventional serum-dilution bactericidal test used for monitoring antibiotic therapy in severely infected in patients requires 72 h. Use of an automaton would be expected to provide faster results.
  • (13) She says herself that she was "never a pager automaton", a term used for those hordes of robotically loyal MPs.
  • (14) Too often dental education and the dental profession have seemed to espouse the idea that the technician must function as an automaton in the fabrication of removable partial dentures.
  • (15) Taking this approach, we infer the grammatical rules which specify 5'-splice sites and construct a finite automaton which is the recognizer of the nucleotide sequences at 5'-splice sites.
  • (16) These token data are translated, normalized, and constitute the input alphabet to a finite state machine (automaton).
  • (17) Yet when it comes to women, we tell them they must appear “likeable” and view them as a hive of drone-brained automatons who all think and respond as one.
  • (18) It turns them into our playthings, always-accessible automatons onto whom we can project all our fantasies.
  • (19) A theoretical analysis of ventricular fibrillation and the requirements for fibrillation are performed using a discrete element neighborhood (cellular automaton) model of ventricular conduction.
  • (20) If neural activity is modelled within an automaton framework, neural processes may be conveniently described in terms of state trajectories.

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