Definizione monolingua

robot

robot (plural robots)

1. (chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.
   • 2010, Tom Chivers and Iain McDiarmid, The Telegraph, 26 Jan 2010:

     The robots in Dicks novel, loosely adapted by Ridley Scott into the film Blade Runner, were so similar to humans that when they went rogue, trained bounty hunters were called in to perform psychological tests to see whether suspected androids lacked human empathy.

2. (figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

   Being a robot, Jessica chose to wear a casual pair of shorts to the funeral and didnt even cry.

3. A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.
   • 2010, Tim Webb, The Guardian, 16 May 2010:

     Its painfully slow and complex work which has never been attempted before in these conditions: the small box-shaped robots, equipped with two claws, are operating in almost freezing water 5,000ft below the surface, in pitch black and strong currents.

4. (South Africa) A traffic light.
5. (surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.
6. A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot

Definizione dizionario robot

	robot
	intelligent mechanical being
	Machine which settles a job with according to a program autonomously.
	A program that performs a task on a network, especially a task that is repetitive or time-consuming.

	semaforo
	Un dispositivo di segnalazione per il controllo del flusso del traffico.
	A signaling device to control the flow of traffic.

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Altri significati:

(surveying) A theodolite which follows the movements of a prism and can be used by a one-man crew.

A machine built to carry out some complex task or group of tasks, especially one which can be programmed.

(figuratively) A person who does not seem to have any emotions.

(South African) A traffic light.

(chiefly science fiction) An intelligent mechanical being designed to look like a human or other creature, and usually made from metal.

A style of dance popular in disco whereby the dancer impersonates the movement of a robot