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

• In the last column, we wrote the logic to compile a set of XPath in a so-called Deterministic Finite Automaton or DFA.
  在上一篇专栏文章中，我们编写了在所谓的“确定性有限自动机（DeterministicFiniteAutomaton或简称DFA）”中编译一组XPath的逻辑。
• Therefore the finite automaton cannot accept the evolution languages generated by elementary cellular automaton of rule 122.
  结果表明：仅用有限自动机是无法接受由122号初等元胞自动机产生的演化语言。
• Automaton theory is a basic theory of compile routine for identifying words.
  自动机理论是编译程序中单词识别的基本理论。
• According to the defects of existing intrusion detection technology, the intrusion detection technology based on data parsing and the finite automaton to implement data parsing were proposed.
  针对现有入侵检测技术的不足，提出了基于数据解析的入侵检测技术和利用有限自动机实现数据解析的方法。
• 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。
• A cellular automaton model was developed to simulate the primary spacing selection of dendritic array during directional solidification.
  发展了一个元胞自动机模型来模拟定向凝固中枝晶阵列的一次间距选择。
• 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。
• Simulations of surface nitridation and nitride precipitation in alloy steels have beeb carried out with cellular automaton modeling.
  应用元胞自动机模型对合金钢表面氮化及扩散层中氮化物沉淀过程进行了计算机模拟。
• 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。