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audio-animatronic, a. and n. orig. U.S.|ˌɔːdɪəʊænɪməˈtrɒnɪk|
Also as one word, and with upper-case initial(s).
[f. audio- + animated ppl. a. + electronic a.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating a technique of constructing robot models in accurate likenesses of humans, animals, etc., which are programmed to perform intricate, lifelike bodily movements in synchronization with a pre-recorded soundtrack.
A proprietary name in the U.K.
1963New Yorker 7 Sept. 108/2 Pretty soon, Walt's going to add onto the Tahitian thing a place called the ‘Enchanted Tiki Room’..which will be full of tikis and of what he calls ‘audioanimatronic’ talking birds and flowers. 1978Trade Marks Jrnl. 8 Feb. 244/1 Audio-Animatronic,..Electronic apparatus for animating model figures and for use in synchronisation with soundtracks. 1978Washington Post 10 Feb. f1/2 The..story of the American people..will be ‘brought to life’ by audio-animatronic versions of Ben Franklin, Mark Twain and Will Rogers who also will present a message of ‘optimism for the future’. 1986W. Weaver tr. Eco's Trav. in Hyperreality i. 45 The ‘Audio-Animatronic’ technique represented a great source of pride for Walt Disney, who had finally managed to achieve his own dream and reconstruct a fantasy world more real than reality.
B. n. pl. (const. as sing.). Usu. as Audio-Animatronics. The technique of constructing animatronic models. Cf. *animatronics n. pl.
A proprietary name in the U.S.
1965Pop. Electronics July 81/1 ‘Audioanimatronics’. This is the jaw-breaking name given to Walt Disney's fantastic creatures that perform..at the fair. 1967Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 14 Feb. tm78 Wed Enterprises, Inc., Glendale, Calif... Filed Apr. 23, 1964. Audio-Animatronics... First use on about July 1, 1961. 1972Times 14 Oct. 16/6 Realistic sound and motion is provided by a system known as ‘audio-animatronics’, a..mixture of electronics, hydraulics and pneumatics. 1979Business Week (Industr. ed.) 26 Mar. 114/3 A presentation on nutrition delivered by jumbo-size vegetables that move and talk via Disney's Audio-Animatronics technology. 1986Financial Times 12 Apr. (Weekend Suppl.) p. xvii/1 Life-size humanoid puppets who—thanks to ‘Audio-Animatronics’—talk, walk, gesture, and grimace indistinguishably from the real thing. 1992Time 20 Apr. 83/3 In the dungeon of Sleeping Beauty's Castle..reposes a fabulous Audio-Animatronics dragon that snorts steam, flashes its stoplight eyes and bares claws.
So audio-ˈanimatron n., a robot of this kind; also audio-animaˈtronically adv.
1967National Observer (U.S.) 3 July 1 Unyielding critics say that Bill Roberts and Stu Spencer ‘made’ Ronald Reagan and that he is hardly more than an audio-animatron like Abe Lincoln at Disneyland. 1973Time 16 Apr. 75/2 Young Hermie—played audioanimatronically by Gargy Grimes. 1982Christian Science Monitor 21 July 3/2 Disney artists..demonstrate their latest in ‘audio-animatrons’, life-size human figures that talk and move. |