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Look up automaton in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
An automaton is a self-operating machine.
Automaton may also refer to:
- An automaton, an abstract machine in mathematics, computer science, and automata theory, a mathematical model of computer hardware and software
- In particular, a finite-state automaton, an automaton limited to a finite state space