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How to pronounce automata

IPA transcription: [ɔ'tɑmətə]

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Noun

  • someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way

    “only an automaton wouldn't have noticed”

  • a mechanism that can move automatically

Usage examples

  • The initial pattern of cells constitutes the first generation of automata in the simulation.
  • Several techniques can be used to explicitly construct reversible cellular automata with known inverses.
  • Anatoly Shalyto introduced a Switch-technology - technology for Automata-Based Programming.
  • Linear bounded automata are acceptors for the class of context-sensitive languages.
  • Automata-based programming is widely used in lexical and syntactic analyses.
  • Vile monsters and destructive automata appeared everywhere, and even prehistoric beasts were resurrected.
  • Eilenberg contributed to automata theory and algebraic automata theory.
  • Wang tiles have also been used in cellular automata theory decidability proofs.