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Auton

//ˈɑ.tɑn// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A machine or robot, usually in the form of a living being, designed to follow a precise sequence of instructions.

    "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."

Etymology

Coined by Robert Holmes in 1969, from a contraction of automaton.

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