| AUTOMATA | • automata n. Plural of automaton. • AUTOMATON n. (Greek) a machine that imitates the movement of a living creature, activated by a concealed mechanism such as clockwork. |
| AUTOMATE | • automate v. (Transitive, intransitive) To replace or enhance human labor with machines. • AUTOMATE v. to convert to automatic control. |
| AUTOMATS | • automats n. Plural of automat. • AUTOMAT n. a restaurant or shop where hot dishes are obtained from slot machines. |
| AUTOTOMY | • autotomy n. (Chiefly zoology) The spontaneous removal of a limb, tail etc, especially by some invertebrates as a… • AUTOTOMY n. the reflex loss of part of the body to save the whole (in lizards, etc.). |
| FACTOTUM | • factotum n. (Dated) A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities. • factotum n. (Dated) A general servant. • factotum n. An individual employed to do all sorts of duties. |
| MOUNTANT | • mountant adj. (Archaic) Rising. • mountant n. (Microscopy) The medium used for mounting a slide. • mountant n. (Photography, dated) The adhesive used to affix a photograph to a mount. |
| MUTATION | • mutation n. Any alteration or change. • mutation n. (Genetics) Any heritable change of the base-pair sequence of genetic material. • mutation n. A mutant. |
| MUTATORS | • mutators n. Plural of mutator. • MUTATOR n. one that causes a change in form. |
| MUTATORY | • mutatory adj. Causing or relating to mutation. • MUTATORY adj. changing, mutable, also MUTATIVE. |
| OUTMATCH | • outmatch v. (Transitive) to surpass or be better than something or someone else. • OUTMATCH v. to surpass. |
| OUTSMART | • outsmart v. (Transitive) To beat in a competition of wits. • OUTSMART v. to outwit. |
| TAUTOMER | • tautomer n. (Chemistry) Any of the multiple forms of a tautomeric compound. • TAUTOMER n. a type of chemical compound. |
| TAUTONYM | • tautonym n. (Biology) A binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison. • tautonym n. (Linguistics) A word or term made from two identical parts or syllables, such as bonbon or dada. • tautonym n. Absolute synonym. |