1610s, from Latin automaton (Suetonius), from Greek automaton, neuter of automatos "self-acting," from autos "self" (see auto-) + matos "thinking, animated, willing," from PIE *mn-to-, from root *men- "to think" (see mind (n.)).
权威例句
1. I get sick of being thought of as a political automaton.
我讨厌被看作政治机器。
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. He handled it with the preciseness of an automaton.
他一丝不苟地处理了这件事.
5. So the storage structure of finite automaton should the choosed adjacency lists.