automaton

automaton has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• v. i.. Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.
• v. i.. A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.
• n.. a mechanism that can move automatically
• n.. someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed"