different between acton vs auton
acton
English
Noun
acton (plural actons)
- Alternative form of aketon
Anagrams
- Canto, Caton, canto, octan
Middle English
Noun
acton
- Alternative form of aketon
acton From the web:
auton
English
Etymology
Coined by Robert Holmes in 1969, from a contraction of automaton.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???.t?n/
- (US) IPA(key): /??.t?n/, /??.t?n/
Noun
auton (plural autons)
- (science fiction) A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.
- 1974, Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, page 55
- Not far away in the woods the Auton had been standing motionless under a tree. It was shaped like a man but it was not human.
- 1986, Vernor Vinge, Marooned in Realtime
- Juan made seven attempts to pervert the auton. One involved twelve hundred years of careful observation, timing the failure of various subsystems, maneuvering the auton into a position where he might take control and get transportation to resources in near space..
- 2002, Sean McMullen, Voyage of the Shadowmoon, page 461
- "The Metrologan Order built the auton that was Ninth. How can you be so sure that she was not so well crafted that she really did have her own will?"
- 1974, Terrance Dicks, Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion, page 55
Related terms
- automat
- automatic
- automatization
- automatize
- automation
- automaton
Translations
Anagrams
- tauon
Finnish
Noun
auton
- Genitive singular form of auto.
Anagrams
- Tauno, ontua, tauon, tuona
Occitan
Etymology
From Latin autumnus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aw?tu]
Noun
auton m (plural autons)
- autumn
See also
auton From the web:
- what autonomy
- what autonomy mean
- what autonomic nervous system
- what autonomous level is tesla
- what autonomous mean
- what autonomous community is madrid in
- what autonomous community is seville the capital of
- what autonomic dysreflexia
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