(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.
Puppet
Definition:
(n.) A small image in the human form; a doll.
(n.) A similar figure moved by the hand or by a wire in a mock drama; a marionette; a wooden actor in a play.
(n.) One controlled in his action by the will of another; a tool; -- so used in contempt.
(n.) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Gays Against Guns protester carries a puppet representing congressman Lee Zeldin.
(2) Alternatively, the politicians could be raising suspicions without evidence to weaken the incoming president, Donald Trump, whom his former opponent Hillary Clinton dubbed a “puppet” of the Russians.
(3) Romney should totally come out with a ventriloquist's puppet called Mr Mittens and channel all answers through him.
(4) Senior Coalition members backed the minister, while accusing unions of being Labor’s puppet masters.
(5) Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey and Tom Hiddleston will be popping up to get pally with the puppets.
(6) Alex Turner has already set about ingratiating himself with the 2013 festival by guesting with his erstwhile partner in the Last Shadow Puppets, Miles Kane, earlier this afternoon, but as he takes to the Pyramid Stage for the Monkeys' headline slot, piling straight into the bluesy electronic throbs of new single Do I Wanna Know in a sharp striped suit and teddy quiff and throwing the odd karate beckoning motion, there's a real sense of points to be proved.
(7) Extreme discomfort and anonymity are the chief challenges faced by puppeteers.
(8) Those who remember the Two Davids of the 1987 SDP-Liberal Alliance will recall the exquisite agony only too well, cruelly captured by the Spitting Image puppet of little Steel perched in big Owen's pocket.
(9) A puppet Government set up at Vichy which may at any moment be forced to become our foe; the whole western seaboard of Europe, from the North Cape to the Spanish frontier, in German hands; all the ports, all the airfields upon this immense front employed against us as potential springboards of invasion.
(10) Three- and 4-year-olds attributed knowledge and perceptual experience to the person (either themselves or the puppet) who had viewed the hidden object, but not to the person who did not view it.
(11) Nothing that transformed the writer into a glove puppet of the manipulators of the media was acceptable to him.
(12) The program includes a self-instructional package presented by a children's puppet.
(13) No, you’re the puppet.” She said the intelligence agencies blamed election-related cyberattacks on Russia.
(14) Lee, a member of the LGBT advocacy group in Northern Ireland Queer Space, wanted a cake featuring Sesame Street puppets Bert and Ernie with the slogan: support gay marriage.
(15) Things that you really wouldn't think about, like for example, you never use the word 'puppet'.
(16) Plans for the show, which has the working title No Strings Attached, are for a puppet presenter interviewing real life celebrities.
(17) With two people to a puppet, synchronised co-ordination was a new challenge.
(18) Anatomical dolls, medical puppets and stuffed animals, toys and games, as well as replicas of medical equipment and furniture are now available to demonstrate more clearly to patients what will be happening to them.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(20) On the first day of every workshop, there would be a new Joey puppet with new joints or parts, and I'd always go say hello to him.