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automata
/ɔˈtɑmətə/
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aw-TAH-muh-tuh: this plural stresses TAH.
The ending has two light uh vowels. Keep the opening aw less prominent than the stressed ah that follows it.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“The gallery displayed several mechanical automata.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does automata mean?
noun
- plural of automaton
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IPA pronunciation
/ɔˈtɑmətə/
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What a feather it would be in my cap if I should succeed in making these automata reflect!
They are automata of the most perfect kind, rendering the engine and machine-maker in a great measure independent of inferior workmen.
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They are then no more than vain shadows, passive, unresisting and powerless automata.
Therefore, the great thing in preparing for war was not to transform the soldiers into precisely-acting automata, as in a modern army, but to make each separate soldier as vigorous and active as possible.
These automata can be made by dexterous manipulation to jabber a little, like a doll with its monotonous "ma-ma," or a cuckoo clock; but they lack even the sterile utility of the imitative art of ventriloquism.