robots
- 1Plural of robot.
Industrial robots now assemble most of the components on this line.
Engineers programmed the robots to navigate the warehouse without human guidance.
Note
A regular plural that covers nearly every use of the singular: factory machines, humanlike mechanical beings, software bots, and people who seem to lack feeling or individuality. In South Africa it also means traffic lights, so "turn left at the robots" gives directions rather than science fiction. The exception is the historical Central European system of rent paid in forced labor, which is uncountable and takes no plural.
robots is a form of robot
robot, noun: A machine that can carry out complex tasks automatically, usually controlled by a computer, sometimes built or imagined to look and act like a human or animal. Full entry
- Forms
- robotrobots plural
- Spelling
- robot → robots: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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