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robotic

adj
/ɹəʊˈbɒt.ɪk/UK/ɹoʊˈbɑtɪk/CA/ɹəʉˈbɔt.ɪk/

Etymology

From robot + -ic. Coined by American science fiction author Isaac Asimov in 1941 in his short story Liar!.

  1. borrowed from robot
  2. suffixed as robotic — “robot + -ic”

Definitions

  1. Of, relating to, or resembling a robot

    Of, relating to, or resembling a robot; mechanical, lacking emotion or personality, etc.

    • You'd cut your own nose off before you'd let me get the credit for solving robotic telepathy.
    • In Vice President Al Gore's campaign to change his robotic image, nothing may have helped more than the big smooch.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at robotic. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at robotic. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at robotic

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA